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else, but it is in one form, in one way or other, a form

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of home rule.

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It does not make the definition any easier,

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but at least it should give us a better understanding of

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it, and I think it makes it clear that we've got to have

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a definition to show what we are considering and is some-

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what of the background from which we are going to come up

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with our end product.

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The fifth item on the list of questions is a

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study of the various approaches to metropolitan problems

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that can be taken in state constitutions.

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Now, there again, what is to be understood and

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definition is going to be important, insofar as the basis

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upon which we are going to try and achieve the flexibility

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and the brevity of our eventual constitutional provision.

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We've got to go, it seems to me, even though

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in the net result we come up with something that is quite

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brief, it may only be one page, we have got to have gone

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in depth before we come up with that final conclusion.

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As we do this, we may well achieve a way in which to pro-

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