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THE CHAIRMAN; Delegate C lark.
DELEGATE CLARK: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Convention, I arise to support the minority
report.
it seems to me that the more recent leadership
of the General Assembly of Maryland and the membership also
has been making some progress to improve the image of the
General Assembly in the eyes of the people of Maryland,
and I think that the proposal of the committee would set
the stage for a situation that would probably make it more
difficult for us to proceed aloncr these lines.
It seems to me that this is sort of an irrespon-
sible proposal that the committee has come forward with.
We in Maryland have gotten along very well under a Consti-
tutional majority. We are used to it. Any bill that
cannot receive 61 votes in the House, the new House, and
21 votes in the Senate, perhaps should not become a law
of Maryland.
The people deserve to have confidence in their
laws, and if you set the stage where laws can be passed
without a majority, then I think the people will lose