Government
There are 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula (see map).
State prisons are located in Baraga, Marquette, Munising, Newberry, Marenisco and Kincheloe.
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“I don’t know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.”
—Will Rogers (1879–1935)
“A government deriving its energy from the will of the society, and operating, by the reason of its measures, on the understanding and interest of the society ... is the government for which philosophy has been searching and humanity been fighting from the most remote ages ... which it is the glory of America to have invented, and her unrivalled happiness to possess.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)