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national level by the old age security, unemployment,

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and I think we can well set forward that goal here. We

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don't have to resort to a lot of outworn chivalries

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about the welfare states and about laissez faire in

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the economy and about rugged individualism. That went

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down to the worse defeat in history. We are here to set

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goals. One of the specific reasons that we need this is

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because as time goes on perhaps it is indeed going to

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be possible for the states to share some of the revenues

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that are now being collected by the federal government, and

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if that day comes, if we are to strengthen our state

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government and get rid of the federal bulldozer, then we

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have got to have something in our Constitution that sets

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the direction toward which we are going and the direction

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toward which we are going is the protection and upholding

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of individual worthiness, dignity.

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That is the goal we want to set, and I think

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that this is not holding out a vain hope to the people of

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Maryland at all. It is setting a goal towards which we

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shall go and I hope indeed that Mr. Scanlan's amendment

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is defeated and if necessary, we can go to the merits of