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that they would place into the hands of the 19-year-old

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voters their government, and yet when I looked at the

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list on the lottery proposal, I found that they had

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the great fear that these young, wonderful, well-educated

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new voters would not understand.

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Let us open this Constitution to these people.

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After the Committee of the Whole had passed on this

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inclusion I took it upon myself, Mr. President, to go

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into my district and my other colleagues in my district

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know we are close to the people in our district. I

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see them every day. I have in my hands some petitions

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that I wrote just to get a sense of feeling of what people

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are saying, and what they are talking about as to this

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Constitution, and don't let anyone be foooled that people,

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the people that we are writing the Constitution for, the

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working man, the taxpayer, the fellow that is going to foot

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the entire bill, he has something to say, and he wants to

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say it.

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In this petition I wrote "We, the undersigned

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voters, are opposed to the inclusion in a modern Maryland

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Constitution of any prohibition on lotteries", and to