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function unit in the very broad sense.
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People outside the State look upon Montgomery
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County, Maryland, as a veritable laboratory of governmental
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development, an interesting development. We know about
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its home rule charter, and so on. I would think it applies
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in principle.
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THE CHAIRMAN: What is the danger of classifica-
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tion? You mentioned or touched upon it when you said
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become oversimplified.
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DEAN FORDHAM: The danger of classification in
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one sense is what Mr. Hi 1c s referred to a while ago.- If
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you classify to the point where in effect you can deal with
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each county by itself, then you go back to the existing
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pattern where the representative from the county speaks for
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the county and that's it. That is one danger of it. It
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is back scratching within the Legislature where nobody else
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in the Legislature will object to the position he takes as
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to his county.
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MR. BROOKS: You want a minimum number of members
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of classification.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Along that specific line, what
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