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too much. It seems mandatory home rule is simply that
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the local governments have home rule and it way take one
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of many forms. You restrict it to two forms, charpter or
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code home rule. I would like to get away from these res-
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trictive Maryland terras and broaden it out somewhat.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Failing to adopt one form or
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another, then an optional plan drafted by the Legislature
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and made a part would then go into effect in that county
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which had failed to act. So all counties would eventually
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end up with some form of home rule.
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DEAN FORDHAM: You see, Mr. Chairman, when you
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talk about home rule, you are talking about something that
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is highly amorphous, no universal concept of home rule.
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It is a vacant kind of thing. Sounds fine. You have to
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put content into those words as a semantic matter.
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In Ohio, for example, there is an article in the
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constitution granting substantive home rule power directly
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to any home rule unit, city or village. Substantive
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home rule powers are granted directly. Charter making
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power, which has to do with setting up your structure of
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government, et cetera, depends upon local option, may or
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