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national government that ultimately can win the war
against poverty if that war is to be won. In effect,
the language even as now proposed by the Committee, as
amended by Amendment No. 14, asks this Convention to
write into the Constitution what is either the full
employment act of Maryland or a snare and delusion,
a statement of pious hope that no action on the part of
Maryland alone could ever achieve.
She mentioned the depressed areas of this
state as there are in many other states, but again,
defining those areas, the attempt to raise those areas
to the level where they are no longer subject to such an
opprobrious classification as "depressed" is a fight
maintained by the federal government with the full sweep
of the federal power including the full sweep of the
taxing power.
To ask the State of Maryland singlehandedly
to take on this battle is really to ask the impossible.
Moreover, while I am not unsympathetic with
the economic theory embraced in Amendment No. 14, it is
really a welfare state concept. I am not sure that