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we ought to take advantage of it, and the gossamer fear of

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the day when Congress will allow these provisions to fall,

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we ought not to worry about.

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For whatever time we will have Congressional

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redistricting, we should seize on it. If it is only 10,

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20 or 30 years, it will be two or three decades of much

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more satisfactory government.

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Certainly the legislature of the State of Maryland

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has demonstrated that it has been incapable of coming

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up with a federal Constitution plan on a one-man, one-vote

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basis, and I think that we ewe it to the legislators who

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are going to grapple with this problem again to give them

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the outline of what the people of Maryland expect of

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them, not only on the basis of what the Supreme Court

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might require, but what we are entitled to require over

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and above the bare minimum.

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I urge you to defeat this amendment.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Any further discussion?

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Are you ready for the question? The Clerk

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will ring the quorum bell.

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The question is on the adoption of amendment