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The Legislature has demonstrated its inability to restrain pure power. It has been processing a bill that would prevent the citizens in Fargo from using home rule to adopt its own election rules.
As the principal author of home rule used by cities and counties, I have taken a proprietary interest in the development of home rule. North Dakota now has over
Omdahl writes that no Fargo legislators advocated to an approval voting ban, "but 18 legislators outside of Fargo sponsored the punitive action. So a compelling point must be made to these 18: 'This is none of your business.'"