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Leave it as it is?
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DR. EURDETTE: 1 would not freeze it, but it
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ought to be subject to change and it ought to be locally
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changed or possibly legislative change. There are two
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ways of changing it locally. One is that, there are
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.many ways, two ways I would advocate: .One, that the coun-
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ty governing body could propose changes subject to refer-
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endum, basic changes in structure of government or,
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alternatively, and alternatively, I would favor "the "and",
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that there may be a petition in the electorate in the
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county to change the government. That being subject to
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a referendum.
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This, I think, I have argued, everybody here
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perhaps heard it over and over again, maybe I better men-
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tion it, I think our great trouble with charter in Maryland
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has been this home rule as understood in Maryland means .
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people in counties must get up a petition to say we ought
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to create a body of people like us here to get up a charter
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to submit it to the people. The very fundamental impli-
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cation is , we are going to throw out the present County
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Conmissioners.
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