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THE CHAIRMAN: I mentioned this earlier, but
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you didn't comment on it specifically. What is your.
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opinion of a broad grant of power but leaving in the
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present concept of general legislation that we have here
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in Maryland, the idea that any law applying to two or more
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of your home rule counties would be a general law, as
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against defining it in terms and effect as applying to all
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of one class or to all counties?
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DEAN FORDHAM: I think that is pretty good
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division because it does tend to break down this idea that
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exists today that if you can enact legislation as to a
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single county, the real decision is made by the delegate
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from that county, or that if the Legislature wants to,
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on the initiative of somebody else, it can step in and act
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on the problems of this county without regard to any other.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Actually if you had the defini-
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tion of general being applicable to two, would you need
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classification if you had it down to that degree of flexi-
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bility?
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DEAN FORDHAM: Yes, put aside the word, classi-
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fication, for the moment and refer to this particular device
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