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Would you be kind enough to tell me, specifi-
cally, just what it proposes to do?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mi-tchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: Well, I think by its inclu-
sion first it sets the position of this state and the
commitment of this state and the language that is
used to the abolition of discrimination because of race,
religion, or national origin, and that is very important,
I think in every Constitution, that the symbols of commit-
ment by the state certainly in the area of human rights--
and that is what a bill cf rights is, a declaration of
personal rights—be clear.
We were given the volume on salient issues
of Constitutional reform to read or revisions to road
when we were at our drafting session at Goucher College,
and in it there is an article on civil liberties and the
author points out that it is important in the area of civili
liberties that we reassess the problems at the time the
Constitution is written in the area of human rights and put
in there the concepts which are needed to reinforce the
protection of the rights of the citizens in this area and