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Admittedly the word "exclusively" is not in the
present Constitution. However, in operation, under the
existing court structure of Maryland, the constitutional
court structure, the courts have in every instance except
one been accomplished by constitutional amendment, as
would be permitted under the same flexibility of the lang-
uage proposed by the majority report.
It is the view of the majority that the court
structure,the unified court system proposed, can only be
as strong as the weakest link in the chain.
If the amendment is adopted, which allows other
courts that may be provided by law to be created at the
will of the legislature, it is inevitable it seems to the
majority that such authority could impair the unified,
possibly uniform jurisdiction of the court stru cture pro-
posed.
Only by a constitutional amendment, adopted by
this state, to provide for a special Court of Appeals has
Maryland heretofore allowed its legislature to provide by
law for other courts, and in that instance the allowance
to the legislature providing for other courts was only at