An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a county).
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“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man or man independent of woman. For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman; but all things come from God.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 11:11.
In v. 9, Paul wrote “Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.”
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)