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I think if we mandated the Legislature to
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preservs broad powers in such language, that the Court of
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Appeals would have to uphold the intent of the constitu-
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tion. In the next step, if we provided that the adjust-
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ments which the Legislature. should make should be by
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Statewide law — I use that term, Statewide law, because
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I think in Maryland, if we talk about general public law,
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we discover that becomes for a single unit of government
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through our system of exceptions — you are familiar
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perhaps with this , Dean Fordham, one can have a general
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public law, in Maryland applying to the whole State but
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find that 22 out of the 23 counties have been exempted
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from it, so it becomes in fact, public local law although
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it is called public general law.
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I would like to avoid that. Where I get stuck,
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think this quickly moves us to classification. While we
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might limit classification, I don't know how to limit it
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vithout getting Baltimore City in a class by itself. I
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"think this is just as bad for Baltimore City as it would
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be for Queen Anne County from which Mr. Miles comes.
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MR. BROOKS: One alternative, this is a kind of
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