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the houses.
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MR. RATCHFORD: They haven't started building.
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You get into the question of how you can create under the
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present system. Apparently Columbia is going to become
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like Towson or Catonsville in Baltimore County, as far
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as the County goes; but it does raise the problem, and
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not only am I thinking of that, but the problem that at
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one time you are going to get into the affect of eliminating
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duplicating systems and overlapping of governments. How
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can you provide a system without going to the huge govern-
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ment form where it is hard for a citizen to voice an
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opinion on. In other words, whether or not there should
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be some type of federalism on a local unit basis, instead
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of, in other words, having a broad level and sub units
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answering to a board which is, again, the Toronto approach
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This, I think, is the problem, how much do you put in the
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Constitution? I don't know. I doubt if you want to put
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too much in, but at least you want to have some authority
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where it can be done as you mentioned, so we are not
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building an inflexible document.
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THE CHAIRMAN: This really gets us into one of
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