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grant of power to the subdivisions and let the Legislature

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classify them? Do we give a broad grant of power and re-

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tain this concept that iinything that applies to. two or

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more subdivisions is a general law? Or do we go all the

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way and give a broad grant of power and say the Legislature

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has to legislate for all 24 subdivisions and not be able

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to be more specific than that?

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DEAN FORDHAM: I think I would go along with

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the idea that the Legislature can classify.

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MR. MILES: Isn't that your answer there?

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Is this the" model constitution?

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DEAN FORDHAM: No, this is a different thing.

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This exists already in New York and New Jersey.

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MR. MILES: This- is what you propose in Massa-

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chusetts?

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DEAN FORDHAM: I didn't propose this. This is

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not my proposal, Massachusetts didn't embrace in this Sec-

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tion 6, my general theory, they do embrace that. There is

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a lot of detail difference.

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The difficulty of classification would be quite

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apparent. You have to work out a philosophy as to how



 

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