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impose something en the city without its request.
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What I was saying was, New York's present
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revenue situation is an example of the kind of problem
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existing in some major cities where you have to depend on
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the Legislature to make the grant. If a broad grant is
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made at the outset, the power would remain until the Legis-
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lature decided to take it away or to qualify it.
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MR. MELVIN: You mentioned in Missouri and, I
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think, California, where they have the residual power
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theory —
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DEAN FORDHAM; No, they don't, they have this
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dichotomy of distinction between State concerns and local
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affairs. That is what I object to.
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MR. MELVIN: What States have these residual
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power theories?
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DEAN FORDHAM: The only one that fully has it
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now in express terms is Alaska, but Texas has it by inter-
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pretation. Pennsylvania has it, as I said a while ago,
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by force of the way the enabling act was adopted. The
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constitution doesn't grant the powers expressly.
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In extending home rule powers to Philadelphia,
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