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therefore had not changed it.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss, did you want to

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make any comment with respect to the amendment?

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DELEGATE KOSS: No.

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THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further discussion?

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Delegate Burdette.

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DELEGATE BURDETTE: Mr. President, I might say

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for myself that in discussion in the Committee on Style

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where this had arisen there was some feeling that the

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term "federal" to be understandable to all, that perhaps

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the Committee on Style got itself in awkward language by

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changing to "national" since the quite precise terminology

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would be the election of national officers rather than

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a national election, but the point is well made by

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Delegate Winslow that the term "federal election" is also

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inaccurate.

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Let me say, Mr. President, that in my judgment

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the term "federal" properly means the states in union,

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it is a system in which Maryland is as much a part of the

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federal system as is the central government of the United

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States of America.