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raised. Would you like to make a comment?

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DR. LOEVY: Well, from the tenor of the luncheon

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that Jack Jones and I had, we were concerned here with

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something that was raised at the last meeting, just what

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is meant by home rule, and I really think you need someone

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with legal training to look at the concept of home rule

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as it is applied in Maryland; just what powers does home

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rule deny to the legislature.

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He raised the point, and I agree with him, if

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we put in compulsory home rule without knowing just what

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we mean, we might get into some trouble. We may be taking

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powers^ away from the legislature that we do not want to,

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particularly in view of the fact that the tendency in

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local government has been to pass more and more functions

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up to the state level, I think, rather than to leave it at

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the local level. So, I think that is one thing that should

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be looked into, and this brings up then the question of

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enumeration.

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If there is no set legal definition of home

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rule that has emerged from the pattern of court decisions,

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do we want to establish a definition in the Constitution