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accomplishing the same thing in -a different way. I still
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can't see why to go ahead and do it directly, emanating
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from the constitution, in the long run wouldn't be the
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best. What are you safeguarding when you put it through
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the Legislature rather than directly from the constitution
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or what are you safeguarding when you say the Legislature
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would have the authority to do this other than to say that
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the Legislature may grant and in its wisdom does not grant
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some power to the local units?
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MR. MELVIN: As we discussed this before, it is
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difficult to pinpoint it, if you give all powers of govern-
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ment to a local unit, it seems to me in many areas which
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they could act, which would be contrary to the best interes
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of the State as awhole, and which admittedly the State
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could later correct by saying, Okay, we are going to take
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that power away from you, but meantime you could, it seems
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to me, run into considerable difficulty. I have forgotten
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the example Judge Adkins gave, but it had something to do
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with oysters as I recall it.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Or the Potomac River pollution
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problem.
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