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5, which would in effect provide for functional divisions
to be established as prescribed by rule or by law.
If that amendment were acted on favorably woul
you feel that your amendment to which you are addressing
yourself now would be unnecessary?
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Let me answer it in this way
I am sympathetic, if not in favor, and I am
probably in favor with the amendment that you propose, but
it really doesn't answer the question of special courts
such as the possibility of establishing a single tax court.
I don't know whether or not these particular
special courts will ever be needed, and I don't know
whether or not any other special courts will be needed.
We just felt that perhaps, in writing this Constitution,
we would want to allow for the flexibility.
Let me be perfectly frank in saying that, as
of this time, I believe that a unified judicial court
system, a four-tier court system, particularly with the
provision that the functional divisions will be determined
by rule or by law, will answer all the immediate problems
of Maryland. Yes, they will. I can't predict what will