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appendage of the State Legislature, or when the Code
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provision comes in, it can evolve into a partial home
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rule county without going through the charter process.
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I just raise the question that we might
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take a new approach to this. One solution to the prob-
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lem might be to stay with the system we have and get
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rid of the dead language in the constitution as we know
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it and leave the present authority that is in the State
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Legislature.
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For us to adopt, I feel, the broad grant of
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home rule power would mean that the State Legislature
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would then have to, by general legislation, begin with-
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drawing power from the subdivisions.
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MR. MILES : Withdrawing?
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DR. LOEVY: It would have to begin withdrawing
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it. As this begins, my feeling would be what you are
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saying is you are giving the Legislature as of that point
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the job of redefining the entire relationship of local
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government in Maryland. If a complete redefinition of
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this is what we want, then I would support the broad grant
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