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the number of classes if you make provision in your con-
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stitution simply that the Legislature may classify on the
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basis of population, geographic location, or any other
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reasonable basis? Wouldn't it be better to give that
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degree of flexibility to the Legislature rather than giv-
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ing it and then restricting it and saying that they can
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classify only in so many groups?
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DEAN FORDHAM: I am a little disposed to leav-
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ing it open to the Legislature, although there are some
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hazards in it. It tends to throw the question into the'
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laps of the courts again 'because the court would have to
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say when the question was presented whether or not a given
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classification was a rational one in terras of population,
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for example, and if they so found, they would uphold it.
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DR. BURDETTE: What do you think of another as-
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pect? It occurs to me in Maryland that the most obvious
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class one is Baltimore as it is in Pennsylvania for Phila-
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delphia. But our situation is different. I don't think
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Philadelphia is as strong in the State as Baltimore is here
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I should think that if Baltimore had a good idea
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it was going to be a class one unit of government and the
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