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1	the Legislature put it in this form, granted the whole
2	works subject to certain limitations.
3	MR. MELVIH: That has resulted in several court
4	cases, has it not?
5	DEAN FORDHAM: There have been quite a few
6	cases, but on the wholu , the thing has worked pretty well,
7	it really has.
8	MR. MELVIN: Thank you.
9	THE CHAIRMAN: Kentucky has gotten close to it.
10	It provides in Article 8 that units of local government
11	may create any democratic form of government or perform
12	any functions not denied to them by the constitution, by
13	law, or by their own charters. That certainly just exactly
14	DEAN FORDHAM: Is that in the present constitu-
15	tion or the proposed?
16	THE CHAIRMAN: Proposed.
17	DEAN FORDHAM: This is the proposal?
18	THE CHAIRMAN: Yes.
19	DEAN FORDHAM: By the Commission working out
20	there?
21	MR. BROOKS: Yes.