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other sections which I have referred to, although with
a somewhat lesser import.
The majority recommendation abolishes the
historic Maryland constitutional majority requirement in
voting for the passage of bills.
This requirement has been in the Maryland Con-
stitution since Maryland has had a Constitution, and it
has required the vote of a majority of the members of the
\ House, or the Senate, as the case may be, for the passage
of a bill.
The majority recommendation proposes that a bi]
shall be passed by a majority of the members present and
voting. The minority does not believe that in a Senate
of 40 people and a House of 120 people, 11 people in the
Senate and 31 people in the House should be able to pass
bills of the magnitude which the budget of Maryland has
reached at this point, so that 11 Senators and 31 Delegates
could pass a billed budget. This is not government by
majority of elected representatives. This is government
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by minority. This is not only a departure from the tradi-
tion of Maryland, but this is departure from the practice