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more -time, but I want to emphasize my position. I am
certainly not in favor of any discrimination of anyone,
and if I thought that the language as we have put in the
majority report denied any person the equal protection
of the law, I would be willing for this amendment or any
other amendment to change it.
I do not think so. The argument has been made
here that the language is not plain. My good friend
Delegate Koss said so. I can't see where you can have
any plainer language than this: No person shall be
denied the equal protection of laws.
That is as plain and as concise as can be made
any time , any where .
I am looking at this thing a little bit from
a lawyer's standpoint, especially the judge's on the
bench. A system of case law has grown up interpreting
the 14th Amendment, or the Federal Amendment, T am not
certain I have the right one, but anyway, the Federal
Amendment which this law is.
will
The Courts of Maryland/have no trouble, in view
of the decisions of the Supreme Court, rcraining in step