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The question that arises is whether or not you
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just leave that broadly to the Legislature without saying
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anything about it in terms of its plenary power or whether
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you put something in the constitution about it, as they
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did in the sixth edition of the model State constitution.
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It is a little hazardous to try to put it in the con-
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stitution, but I think I would try.
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I don't think you have the same problem I am
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talking about now. Some other states did. But when you
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talk about interstate governmental relations, the problem
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of overlapping two states, there is some question.
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THE CHAIRMAN: We have that with the District
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of Columbia, Delaware, and Virginia.
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DEAN FORDHAM: Where you have that problem,
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distinguished 'from intergovernmental relations within your
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State, there could be a constitutional question as to
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whether or not the State of Maryland could authorize Mont-
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gomery County, for example, to engage in some kind of
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activity with the District of Columbia which involved
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decision making by an outside authority that governed its
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people. There might be some question as to whether or not
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