Now, let me say this. How much more explicit car
we get when we say "no person shall be denied, "no person.
That means no person. You don't get into the problems
of, do you include sex, do you include religion, or who
is to be included.
The committee majority report says no person
shall be denied the equal protection of the laws, no per-
son shall be denied due process.
That answers every single possible problem. We
were aware of all of lhe points that were brought out by
Delegate Mitchell and we felt that those problems were
answered by the majority report, by the language "no
person".
Let me say this to you: Maryland ought to be in
the mainstream of American life, American development.
The shoals on either side of the river, the shallow water
on either edge, ought to be avoided. By using the language
of the 14th Amendment we feel that we keep our state in the
main stream of development. We feel that we avoid the
risk, the dangers of going out into new and untried
language.