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raised. Would you like to make a comment?
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DR. LOEVY: Well, from the tenor of the luncheon
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that Jack Jones and I had, we were concerned here with
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something that was raised at the last meeting, just what
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is meant by home rule, and I really think you need someone
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with legal training to look at the concept of home rule
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as it is applied in Maryland; just what powers does home
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rule deny to the legislature.
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He raised the point, and I agree with him, if
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we put in compulsory home rule without knowing just what
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we mean, we might get into some trouble. We may be taking
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powers^ away from the legislature that we do not want to,
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particularly in view of the fact that the tendency in
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local government has been to pass more and more functions
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up to the state level, I think, rather than to leave it at
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the local level. So, I think that is one thing that should
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be looked into, and this brings up then the question of
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enumeration.
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If there is no set legal definition of home
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rule that has emerged from the pattern of court decisions,
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do we want to establish a definition in the Constitution
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