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determination.

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MR. MELVIN: Mr. Chairman, that is what I had

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in mind when I suggested that this analysis of local

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government include a study of the present constitutional

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provision on home rule, and I agree that it probably would

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have to be done by those who are lawyers because it is an

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area in which there is considerable doubt among the many

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people I have talked to as to just exactly where the line

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is drawn under the present provisions.

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THE CHAIRMAN: I think that is true. In this

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whole field of local subdivisions and, more or less,

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governmental setup, there is so much overlapping and inter

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fold that you sometimes get lost in just exactly whether

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you are dealing with one form of home rule or another form

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of home rule, or just what really is included in the very

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idea of home rule and, as time goes on, I think you begin

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to find that it covers a tremendous breadth of govern-

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mental forms under that one caption; and to have some

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definition or appreciation of the fact that it docs cover

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a wide range, where it may be metropolitanism, it may be

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federalism, it may be regionalism, it may be something