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deeply devoted to the idea of constitutional revision in

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the State which is very badly needed and which we have

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provided through the work of this Convention with one other j

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exception I wholeheartedly support all that we have done

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and I feel that we are going to give the people of

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Maryland a vast improvement in their fundamental document

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and in the workings of the government.

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For that reason, I concur in the feelings of

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others that we cannot carry this matter any further and

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I hope that all of us can go out and support this Constitu-

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tion and support this concept which has, I think, persuasively

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carried this Convention even though the document will not

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contain the words.

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Perhaps when the next constitutional convention

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is held, it will no longer be necessary to think in terms of

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providing people the right to bargain and organize, perhaps

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it will be an antiquated a concept as the abolition of

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slavery is to us today when a hundred years ago it must have

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been a burning issue of the Convention.

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For those reasons, I ask you to support the

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principle and leave out the word and to support the