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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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power.

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My feeling, as I did this ..research, however,

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is that at least for the charter counties, the situation

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at the present time is a pretty good one. Although the

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Legislature does define their powers, the express powers

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act seems broad enough, none of them seem to be too

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limited. The Legislature has not seemed to have tyran-

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nized them too much in passing legislation.

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As I point out in here, the Legislature does have

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the advantage of being able to describe any law that

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applies to two or more of the home rule subdivisions

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as general legislation.

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I see about four or five options available to

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us. We can have the broad grant of power with classifi-

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cation. We can have the system we have now where the

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Legislature defines the power of the local units of govern-

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ment, which I am not too sure isn't what would happen if

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you asked the Legislature to redesign the system anyway,

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through a withdrawal of powers.

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I eventually came to the conclusion that we

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are really wrestling with a tremendous problem here and



 

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