Common Council

Common Council may refer to:

  • The Court of Common Council, an elected body of the City of London Corporation
  • Buffalo Common Council, the legislative branch of the Buffalo, NY City Government
  • Los Angeles Common Council, the predecessor of the Los Angeles City Council which serves the City of Los Angeles, California today
  • A city council in many cities in English-speaking countries

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or council:

    The mother’s battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich (20th century)

    Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—
    John Milton (1608–1674)