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to a geographic spread-, that not more than one- fourth

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of the signers may come from any one county. This is

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also twice as difficult for we have provided that not

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more than half should come from one county.

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I suggest that under this provision, neither

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the ultra-liberal people in Baltimore County nor the ultra-

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conservative people in Montgomery, or both of them combined,

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could possibly produce enough signers.

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These two congenial groups would, of necessity,

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get at least two more counties to go along with them before

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they could produce an amendment.

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Now, the reason for this is stated rather

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succinctly in an article which appeared in a metropolitan

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newspaper not too far away on Sunday morning last which

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reads :

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"The difficulty of this method is intentional.

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It is not desired by the sponsor that frequent amendments

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should arise by petition. On the contrary, it is their

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intent that amendment by the petition method should be most

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infrequent, and occasioned only by the seeming impossibility

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of getting the wanted change by either of the other two