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outside of the State.

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The eighth question is a study of how removing

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the Baltimore City Charter and enabling provisions from

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the Constitution will affect Baltimore City.

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I think we've definitely got to know that and

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that is a study in itself.

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MR. RATCHFORD: It's according to the effect on

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the City government or on the City politicians?

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THE CHAIRMAN: I think we've got to be practice

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in the final analysis with what va come up with and we've

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got to determine that what we are going to suggest is

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feasible. It is a matter I touched upon with John Brooks

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a little earlier, saying we could rewrite this Constitution

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in five minutes, actually, but whether or not what we write

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is going to bo acceptable or is feasible is a very, very

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important part of our consideration and we've got to know,

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really, I think, here what removing the Baltimore City

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Charter, what effect it is going to have and what opposi-

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tion it is going to engender.

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It is tied in, for example, in the same way

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in making home rule mandatory. What political effect is