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petition must be filed with the General Assembly or the

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Legislature at its next session so the Legislature would

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have an opportunity either to accept it and put it on the ballot

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in regular form, or to reject it.

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The proposal before you doesn't go that far.

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Secondly, when legislatures were malapportioned,

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when they truly didn't represent the people, when there was

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no concept of one man-one vote in most of the states of

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this nation, I think there was a certain validity for provid-

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ing a means to break the log jam, but even there I don't

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believe the initiative was used successfully in one single

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state to break the log jam of malapportionment.

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Malapportionment, at least in the General

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Assemblies of the land, is behind us, and the peonle now

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are represented by their representatives at the state

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capital as we are in Maryland.

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The amending procedures proposed by the Committee

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are very liberal. First you have the three-fifths

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traditional procedure, and secondly in their next

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proposal you will have before you a proposition that a

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constitutional convention can be convened at any time, or