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determination.
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MR. MELVIN: Mr. Chairman, that is what I had
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in mind when I suggested that this analysis of local
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government include a study of the present constitutional
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provision on home rule, and I agree that it probably would
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have to be done by those who are lawyers because it is an
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area in which there is considerable doubt among the many
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people I have talked to as to just exactly where the line
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is drawn under the present provisions.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I think that is true. In this
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whole field of local subdivisions and, more or less,
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governmental setup, there is so much overlapping and inter
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fold that you sometimes get lost in just exactly whether
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you are dealing with one form of home rule or another form
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of home rule, or just what really is included in the very
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idea of home rule and, as time goes on, I think you begin
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to find that it covers a tremendous breadth of govern-
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mental forms under that one caption; and to have some
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definition or appreciation of the fact that it docs cover
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a wide range, where it may be metropolitanism, it may be
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federalism, it may be regionalism, it may be something
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