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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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