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be insoluble and, through it all, the swift current of
events: seems at times to be carrying us to the brink of
disaster.
We cannot in this Constitutional Convention
of Maryland in the space of the next 90 or 120 days, or
even longer if we had the time, solve the problems of the
world, of the nation, or even of our State, but we can
and we must, within the time allotted to us, provide the
framework of a government for our State which is capable
of grappling with the problems confronting us today, and
with at least a possibility of being able to solve
those problems in such a way as to prevent our State, from
being caught up and destroyed in the inferno of hate
and conflict and bitter defiance which we 'see all about
us.
We must forge a document which the people of our
State will adopt on May 14, 1968, and thus make it a
Constitution, and not a mere exercise in semantics, a
scrap of paper. We must draft a Constitution which will
guarantee to every citizen the right to pursue his own
goal of personal happiness and seek his own level of |
