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speak one's mind were concerns of our earlier Maryland
Constitutions. The fathers of the Constitution of 1776,
1851, 1864 and 1867 recognized that if man were to be free
he had to have these political securities.
These conventions when they argued out the sig-
nificance of placing these securities in the Constitution,
there were some who said they do not belong in the Consti-
tution.
But our times and those ahead of us require us to
establish economic securities. If man cannot be free
economically from want, of what avail is the ballot? Fore-
most among these economic freedoms is the guarantee that
the product of our labor will purchase that which is
wholesome and safe.
Finally, why the Constitution?
The American Constitution has long been an
expression of our belief, indeed our dream. As I said the
other day, when talking about natural resources within our
Constitution, there has existed what seemed to be hortatory
statements for some time and yet out of the 1851 Consti-
tutional mandate, "that the legislature ought to encourage