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achievement as free from interference by government or his
fellow citizens as the complexities of a modern society
can permit and allow, and we must draft a Constitution
which can meet these objectives, not only for us, but for
our children and our grandchildren and their children,
a Constitution which can survive as a meaningful,
operative document, even when subjected to the continuing
assaults of changing conditions and of problems and
situations which we cannot only not conteplate, but not
even dream of today, a Constitution which can provide an
effective government for our nearly 4 million citizens of
today, and also for our ten or more million citizens of
tomorrow.
As we set about this task, we must realize that
our separate existence as a sovereign State, a government
of and by and for the people of Maryland, is at stake.
We are not alone in this. The separate existence of every one
of our 50 States as viable and effective instruments of
local government is challenged. The course of events of
the past 100 years has caused a metamorphosis. We and
our sister States, so apprehensive and fearful in the last |
