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believe your opinion is that the County Commissioner
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form as you know it in Prince Georges County could not
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adequately exercise this broad grant of powers. Is that
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what you mean?
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THE CHAIRMAN: That's what I mean. I am grow-
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ing to see how they could do it.
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DR. BURDETTE: Why would a County Council be any
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better? They are the same type of group of human beings.
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DEAN FORDHAM: I see no overwhelming problem
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there. In Ohio under Article 18, Section 3 of their
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constitution, all municipalities are given substantive
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powers of home rule without adopting any charter. Sub-
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stantive powers are granted directly. If they adopt a
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charter, it becomes an instrument -of limitation rather
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than grant to use the language of real property. That
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is how it would operate. This conceptually makes sense to i
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to do it that way. You don't have to, but I don't know
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why you can't. In Maryland, you could permit in a county
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such as the one you spoke of which is doing well if you
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permit widest freedom as to adoption of a form of govern-
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ment the local electorate would probably prefer to keep
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