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MR. MILES: You are saying keep the thing as it
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is.
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MR. MELVIN: No, because I am in favor of
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mandatory home rule, but that the powers exercised by those
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counties will be those which will be granted not by any
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spelling out of the powers in the constitution but by the
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Legislature.
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THE CHAIRMAN: As I understood Dean Fordham's
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remarks earlier, it was provided you can get them to go
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ahead and do it. It has been a rather successful effort,
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Article 25 (a) has worked rather well.
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It has been express powers broad enough to more
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or less meet any need that we have had up to the present
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time; but we don't know how it can stand the test of the
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future. Of course, the answer, I am inclined to think,
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would be the Legislature would wrestle with it in the
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future and broaden it at that time.
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MR. MELVIN: I think the history has been, as
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far as I know, there has been no move on the part of the
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Legislature to reduce the home rule powers of the charter
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counties.
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