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my people a part of the state of Maryland. "County"
to me is not a dirty word. It is a community of interest.
It might be historical accident that counties in Maryland
have become the communities of interest, but nevertheless
they have. People live in different communities of
different sizes just like people wear different size
shoes. The basic question is whether you want to defranchise
people wearing the wrong size shoes to achieve some nebulous
good by reducing the size of this body below what is
necessary to give these people a reasonable chance to be
represented in their legislature.
It is not a question of voting strength.
Obviously my delegate down here is one of 142 delegates.
No matter how much he wanted to pass a bill, he could never
pass it if the other delegates did not agree with it.
One-man, one-vote is a very understandable
and very necessary thing. It is a different question,
a question of standing. You have to have somebody here
to introduce legislation. You have got to have somebody
here to testify before committees. You have got to have
somebody here who can give you an answer, will this or |
