...taken under the authority of the Congress of the United States or of the Legislature of California, may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to this Constitution ; and any city or city and county having adopted a charter may adopt a new one. Any...

...legislate except as such i>ower is restricted by the Constitution. The Constitution provides that a city may frame a charter for its own government, "consistent with and subject to the laws of this state," and further provides that such charter "shall always be in harmony with and subject...

...controlled by general laws." " Sec. 8. Any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government,...this state, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders .... to be elected. .... whose duty it shall be .... to prepare and propose a charter for such city...

...giving to any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants authority to frame a charter for its own government, consistent...this State, by causing a Board of fifteen freeholders to be elected to prepare and propose a charter, etc. With respect to the offices of Police Commissioners...

...constitution as amended, provides: "A city, or consolidated city and county, containing a population of, etc., may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the laws of this state, by causing a board of fifteen freeholders, who shall have been, for at least five...

...drafters of the constitution added a provision that gives any city with 3,500 or more people the right to "frame a charter for its own government consistent with, and subject to. the Constitution and the laws of the State." 5 The framers established municipal home rule by an express and self-executing...