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DELEGATE MARION: And if Congress were to enact

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a law establishing the maximum, permissible deviation between

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the largest and the smallest district, and assuming they

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were to set the figure at fifteen percent, would it be

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your impression that that would take precedence over the

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ten percent figure, or would the fact that Maryland

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by its constitution required a tighter standard take

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precedence to that extent over the Federal law?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: My understanding would be

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that Maryland's ten percent would fall and that the

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Congressional fifteen percent, the Act of Congress, would

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become the law for Maryland as it would for the rest of the

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States of the UAion, even though it was more restrictive.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Marion.

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DELEGATE MARION: Would there be anything in

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this section, for example the provision in the first line

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that the State shall be divided by law, which would in

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your judgment prevent a three-judge Federal court, as it

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did a year or so ago, from drawing the districts, if they

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were not otherwise drawn by law in Maryland?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: No, I believe that the