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and a lack of public responsibility, for the Maryland
ConatUxitional Convention to write into Maryland's basic
organic law the provision advocated for in the minority
report.
"The minority report also has mistakenly
stated the theory under which public employees have been
denied the right of collective bargaining. The public
employees have not been denied this right on the basis
of the tort law theory of 'The king can do no wrong', but
instead have been deniad the right on the basis of, one,
the Constitutional principle that legislative authori-
ty cannot be delegated, and, two, sound public policy, as
stated in the above judicial decisions.
"Therefore, the honorable delegates of this
Convention are respectfully requested to omit any provision
for collective bargaining, because, one, private employees
have this right as a matter of law without the need for
a state Constitutional provision; two, sound public
policy dictates that the right should not be afforded to
public employees; three, public employees under existing
statutory law already have the right to belong to an