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:
“There ought to be an absolute dictatorship ... a dictatorship of painters ... a dictatorship of one painter ... to suppress all those who have betrayed us, to suppress the cheaters, to suppress the tricks, to suppress mannerisms, to suppress charms, to suppress history, to suppress a heap of other things. But common sense always gets away with it. Above all, let’s have a revolution against that!”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“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)