CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		amendment or amendments shall be part
		of the said Constitution. When two or more
		amendments shall be submitted in manner
		aforesaid, to the voters of this State at the
		same election, they shall be so submitted
		as that each amendment shall be voted on
		separately.
	Section 10.04. Constitutional Convention.	Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the General
	The General Assembly by law may call a	Assembly to provide by Law for taking,
	constitutional convention at any time or may	at the general election to be held in the
	submit the question of calling a constitution-	year nineteen hundred and seventy, and
	al convention to the voters of the State at	every twenty years thereafter, the sense of
	any time. If a constitutional convention shall	the People in regard to calling a Con-
	not have been called or if the question of	vention for altering this Constitution; and
	calling a convention shall not have been sub-	if a majority of voters at such election or
	mitted to the voters of the State for a period	elections shall vote for a Convention, the
	of twenty years, then the question shall be	General Assembly, at its next session, shall
	submitted at the next general election. A	provide by Law for the assembling of such
	convention shall be held within two years af-	convention, and for the election of Dele-
	ter a majority of those voting on the ques-	gates thereto. Each County, and Legislative
	tion approve the calling of a convention or	District of the City of Baltimore, shall have
	within two years after the General Assembly	in such Convention a number of Delegates
	calls a convention. Within sixty days after	equal to its representation in both Houses
	approval by the voters or within sixty days	at the time at which the Convention is
	after the General Assembly calls a conven-	called. But any Constitution, or change, or
	tion, the governor shall appoint a	amendment of the existing Constitution,
	commission to prepare for the convention.	which may be adopted by such Convention,
	Not later than the second regular session fol-	shall be submitted to the voters of this
	lowing the approval, the General Assembly	State, and shall have no effect unless the
	shall prescribe by law the manner for elect-	same shall have been adopted by a majority
	ing delegates, for filling vacancies in the posi-	of the voters voting thereon.
	tion of delegate, and for assembling the con-
	vention, and shall appropriate sufficient funds
	for the work of the convention. The conven-
	tion shall adopt its own rules of procedure.
	Any proposal recommended by the conven-
	tion for changing the Constitution shall be
	submitted to the voters of the State for
	adoption, and shall be effective only if ap-
	proved by the affirmative vote of a majority
	of those voting on the proposal.
	VOTE ON THE CONSTITUTION
	This Constitution, the attached Schedule	See "Vote on the Constitution" at Section
	of Transitional Provisions, and the attached	10.10 for referendum provisions.
	Schedule of Legislation shall be submitted to
	the qualified voters of the State for ratifica-
	tion or rejection at the special referendum
	election to be held on May 14, 1968, in ac-
	cordance with the procedures prescribed by
	Chapter 4 of the Acts of the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland of 1967. If this Constitution
	is ratified at such special referendum elec-
	tion, then the attached Schedule of Transi-
	tional Provisions is ratified as a part thereof
	and the attached Schedule of Legislation is
	adopted also and shall take effect as provided
	therein.

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