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sort that this is possible and perhaps encourage it in

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some way. I don't know, frankly, just what the device

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would be with respect to the preparation in the Constitu-

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tion.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Certainly, it would seem that

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we are thinking in terms of language that would be flex-

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ible enough for it to be done, to be accomplished; at

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least, we certainly want it to be a matter considered and

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within the scope of our consideration here, so that if

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what we are doing, the ground that we are covering is

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eventully studied over again, the germ has been seeded

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and maybe we can find some more effective way of pushing

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the growth of that germ.

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MR. RATCHFORD: Mr. Chairman, if I may load

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Mr. Brooks with some more research, he might want to check

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with the State of New York which has had an office of

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local government now in the Governor's office for a number

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of years and Mr. Moore was director of it. I know the

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people up there who work for the counties are very pleased

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with it. They think it has performed a very useful

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function.