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The comment 1 made is that you will find the people almost
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unanimously in these counties, who would have one delegate
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want to have freedom to have broad grants of power to
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them to have a charter government. It hasn't the slight-
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est political implication in the world, and there is no
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basis for your suggestion.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I have to back up Mr. Miles on
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that. I think what he was really saying to us was, by
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reason of the fact that there had been reapportionment
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in fact, the necessity of home rule was there, aaanl dthat
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if we were going to meet that neecessity, through the
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constitution, we should do so by the mandatory require-
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ment of home rule for all of the counties.
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This points up really, I think, what now Mr.
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Melvin has also said, that the constitutional grant will
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be one which will be a mandatory form of home rule govern-
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ment for all counties, emanating from the constitution,
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but leaving the definition question still open as we are
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now approaching and debating it, definition either by
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way of constitution or definition by way of Legislature.
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I believe and suggest to you that our first
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