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COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968

CONSTITUTION OF 1867

redrawn according to these standards prior


to the general election in 1972 and in every


tenth year thereafter.


Section 3.08. Congressional Redistricting


Procedure.


The commission on legislative redistricting


shall submit a congressional redistricting


plan to the governor, who shall transmit it to


the General Assembly by the first day of the


regular session in the year in which congres-


sional redistricting is to be effective. The


General Assembly shall enact either the com-


mission plan or a congressional redistricting


plan of its own.


Members of General Assembly


Section 3.09. Qualifications.

Sec. 9. No person shall be eligible as a

A senator or a delegate shall be a qualified

Senator or Delegate, who at the time of his

voter of the State at the time of his election

election, is not a citizen of the State of

or appointment, shall have been a resident

Maryland, and who has not resided therein,

of the State for at least two years immediate-

for at least three years, next preceding the

ly preceding his election or appointment,

day of his election, and the last year

and shall have been a resident of his senate

thereof, in the County, or in the Legislative

district for at least six months immediately

District of Baltimore City, which he may

preceding his election or appointment. If any

be chosen to represent, if such County, or

redistricting plan has been adopted within

Legislative District of said City, shall have

one year before a general election for mem-

been so long established; and if not, then

bers of the General Assembly, a candidate

in the County, or City, from which, in

for the office of senator or delegate may also

whole, or in part, the same may have been

seek election in any new senate district con-

formed; nor shall any person be eligible

taining fifty per cent or more of the

as a Senator, unless he shall have attained

population of the senate district in which he

the age of twenty-five years, nor as a

resided prior to redistricting. At the time of

Delegate, unless he shall have attained the

his election or appointment a senator shall

age of twenty-one years, at the time of his

have attained the age of twenty-five years,

election.

and a delegate shall have attained the age of
twenty-one years.

Sec. 10. No member of Congress, or
person holding any civil, or military office


under the United States, shall be eligible


as a Senator, or Delegate; and if any person


shall after his election as Senator, or Dele-


gate, be elected to Congress, or be ap-


pointed to any office, civil, or military,


under the Government of the United States,


his acceptance thereof, shall vacate his seat.


Sec. 11. No Minister or Preacher of the


Gospel, or of any religious creed, or de-


nomination, and no person holding any civil


office of profit, or trust, under this State,


except Justices of the Peace, shall be eligible


as Senator, or Delegate.


Sec. 12. No Collector, Receiver, or


Holder of public money shall be eligible


as Senator or Delegate, or to any office of


profit, or trust, under this State, until he


shall have accounted for, and paid into

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