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DELEGATE MITCHELL: Two minutes.
THE CHAIRMAN; Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, ladies and
gentlemen of the committee, I rise briefly to support
this amendment, because I remember this General Assembly
when abortive attempts were made to adopt the language
of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, and I think it would be a significant thing
to put the power and the majesty of the law behind the
rights which we believe ought to be accorded to every
citizen.
In spite of what might have been said about
a redundancy in language, it would seem to me that the
protracted manner in which many of the rights which
belong to all our citizens have been accorded, that it would
serve Maryland well and bring to this Convention a measure
of appreciation by all of those who have suffered so long
as a result of unequal application of the laws.
As has been said so often, all men were born
equal, but it is proved unfortunately that some were born
more equal than others and I suggest to you and respectfully