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community colleges and representatives of private schools

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of higher education.

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For that reason we suggest that the majority bases

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its report not on any motives of individual members of

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the committee as has been alluded to in certain charges of

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special interest, but rather requests that you impute good

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faith both to the majority and minority reports and at

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worst after hearing the deliberations conclude that one

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was conscientiously right or conscientiously wrong. The

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majority recommendations make the case for recognizing that

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lay persons who have volunteered to serve without pay

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should be continued in order to insure that position and

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political expediency shall have no place in the educational

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structure of the State.

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For the last 13 weeks we have been attempting to

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fashion a Constitution for the State of Maryland, a body

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politic to serve the needs of the people of this State.

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We have attempted to make this body politic a

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living one. In the traditional three branches of govern-

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ment, we have provided the torso, the local government,

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its appendages, taxation and finance its blood streams,