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terms of letting people but of jail.

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This particultr incident occurred in Detroit

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where a number of people were arrested, and they couldn't

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obtain food or get out of jail.

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Would this particular section cover a

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situation like that?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: First of all, let me say

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that nothing here is intended to inflict or detract from

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the right of the governor to use the militia under

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the appropriate circumstances.

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Secondly, I should say that this constitutional

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provision requires that the General Assembly take further

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action and set up specific modes of procedure in the

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event that such an emergency does take place.

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In and of itself, Section 319 does nothing

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other than to allow the General Assembly to pass

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legislation anticipating a disaster or an emergency.

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Consequently, the questions which you address to me

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would seem to be more properly to be considered by the

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Legislature itself when it acts to implement 3.19.

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I don't see that this section would give rise to some of