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mandatory. I think there is going to have to be some

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middle ground, preferably voluntary, but I don't think it

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would work out in the metropolitan areas.

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As far as the other aspects, how you write your

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home rule provisions, I think again it would bear study

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after you have your analysis of what home rule is. I

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think if you prohibit the Legislature from doing every-

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thing, you can put your subdivisions too far away from the

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State. On the other hand, when you start to enumerate

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things, in constitutions, at least, you create great

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problems of inflexibility.

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I don't really know the answer to that until

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I have studied it and until I have seen some of the legal

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analyses, and this I might suggest would be one important

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area to do some staff research in, this one on what is

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home rule.

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The creation of new units of local government,

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I think again this is better perhaps left on the local

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level, but with the Legislature providing some general

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guidance. In other words, to say it can be done, the

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counties and cities can consolidate or consolidate