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Unlike Maryland, they were elected there as
Democrats and Republicans and were partisan from the
day they formed. They transformed themselves into a
junior edition of the New York General Assembly.
This Constitutional Convention has not made
those basic mistakes. We are elected on a non-partisan
basis, we came here as delegates, obedient only to our own
conscience as to what is good for the State of Maryland.
New York made one other great mistake. In
giving the voters just a warmed-over version of what
they already have, the delegates of the New York Conven-
tion failed in the matter of courage and wisdom. They were
rightly repudiated by the voters of New York.
I urge my fellow delegates, let us not make that
one mistake New York made. Let us in this important re-
spect again be different from New York, just as we came
here as non-partisans, just as we came here in a spirit
to try to fashion the best possible Constitution, even
though we might not agree with all parts of it. Let's
once again show New York we have in Maryland what they
didn't have in their Convention, courage to do the right |
