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various insideous devices by which one's privacy and per-
sonal life could be invated that have now come to the
fore in our national life.
If I recall correctly, no questions w.ere asked
of Chairman Kiefer regarding our proposal for section 4,
which rather astonished me, because I think it is one of the
few, if not only p-aces in the proposed new Constitution
where very substantial, very personal and very real rights
are being advanced to the people of Maryland which may not
be available to those in any other State.
The subject of search and seizure, as those 80
odd lawyers who are in this room are aware, is an extremely
complex one, and in the ten minutes which I have to explain
my amendment, I couldn't begin to scratch the surface of
it; and I will not attempt to do so.
I think both lawyers and laymen, we all under-
stand that the protection against unreasonable searches and
seizures is the basis on which the privacy of the individual
is constitutionally protected; and it is the means by which
the Committee rn Personal Rights and the preamble sought
to perpetur-c it i the new Constitution.