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The Constitutional Amendment? I thought they were in the
process of reorganizing their Constitution, isn't that
correct?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: They are in the process of
reorganization, but I don't believe it has passed. What-
ever they did, they did by statute under which I assumed
was the plenary power that the Maryland State legislature
has. All state legislatures to my mind have plenary
power except as restricted by the Constitution of the U. S.
or their own state Constitution.
DELEGATE PASCAL: Correct me if lam wrong. It
was my source of information that in Florida, the legislatura
is rewriting the Constitution and they made the recommenda-
tion to themselves, so to speak, to write the conflict of
interest law, isn't that correct?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I don't believe that is
' correct. I believe the statute they passed they passed under
their existing power. It is true as I understand that they
are rewriting their Constitution, but whatever they did by way
of reform in the conflict of interest field they did under
existing legislative power. There is only one state to