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constitutions in each state.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I think our research, though,
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has got to extract from those constitutions the appro-
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priate sections on local subdivisions and metropolitan
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forms of government as contemplated here, because many
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tines you will find a constitution is so interrelated that
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one section will not fully cover all of the various powers
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that are available to the local governmental unit under
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one article, but they come from other articles throughout
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the constitution.
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DR. BURDETT: Well, Mr. Chairman, I would make
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the suggestion, and Mr. Brooks can correct me on this,
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that it would be most helpful to us to deal with, to en-
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phasize states that have had similar heritage and similar
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patterns with ours, and one of the states I am thinking of
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is North Carolina which has a high similarity in the
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pattern. There is a great deal of local autonomy ex-
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pressed in the legislature. While I am not up to date on
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it, I gather there has been a great deal of change in
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North Carolina and a great deal of study of it at the
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universities.
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