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(There was no response.)

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THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair hears none.

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Would you please proceed, then, with the

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Committee's report on the next subject?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: The next section having

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to do with continuity of government during emergency is

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one which has become fashionable in recent constitutions.

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The purpose of this is to provide for continuity

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of government in the event of an emergency,

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disaster or enemy attack, and for continued operation

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of government.

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The reason it is necessary to include this

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section in the constitution is that the Committee contem-

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plates that in times of disaster it would be necessary

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to suspend some constitutional operations, some

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constitutional procedures. I am not talking about

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the area of personal rights, but I am talking about

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in the area of office holding.

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Let us suppose that something happened to

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Annapolis while the General Assembly was in session

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and that a large number of the members of the General