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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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the problem we faced with the broad grant of home rule

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powers. In our original sample language, we proposed

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classification as a possible way of leaving the State

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Legislature some element of control over the individual

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subdivisions granted home rule powers. Without classifi-

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cation, we face the situation where if we have compulsory

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home rule for 24 units of government, the State Legisla-

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ture has to pass general legislation for all 24. I felt,

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and I think most of us felt, that this was too great a

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limitation on the Legislature.

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I prepared this report simply because as I was

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making this study, it occurred to me we have several

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strengths in our local government situation as it now

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exists in Maryland. One strength is that we don't have

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classification whatsoever. Our constitution provides

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for it, but the State has never made use of it.

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A second thing that occurred to me is that our

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system, our present relationship between the State and

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local governments , does provide for a maximum amount of

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flexibility. The way our constitution now reads, a unit

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any either back a home rule county, it may stay as an



 

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