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constitutional home rule. However, we should not think
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of our guest as an ivory-tower scholar. Dean Fordhan has
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had great practical experience in dealing with the prob-
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lems of constitutional revision. He was a member of the
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Pennsylvania Commission on Constitutional Revision and
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has taken a leading role in the fight for general con-
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stitutional revision in his home state. In addition,
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during the "New Deal" he spent several years in the Public
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Works Administration and the Department of Labor.
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As Many of you already know, Dean Fordham, in
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1953, drafted the American Municipal Association's
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proposal for constitutional home rule, which has since
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been adopted by the National Municipal League in its Model
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State Constitution. I am sure that hewill have much to say
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on that subject, so I present to you Dean Jefferson Ford-
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ham.
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The following books and articles were written
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by Dean Fordham: A Larger Sense of Community; Local
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Government Law; Urban Renewal in Metropolitan Context.
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the Challenge of Contemporary Urban Problems", University
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of Florida Law Review; "Constitutional Revision in Pennsyl-
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