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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. Pres-
ident and members of the Convention, I
wanted to ask the Chairman if there was
anything in the previous recommendation,
S&E-1 or anything in this one — if it is
in this one I do not see it — that would
require the General Assembly to set the
date of party primary elections in ample
time prior to the national convention, so
that delegates could be elected in party
primaries to their state conventions and
that the state convention could be held in
ample time prior to the national con-
vention?
I do not know whether the last legis-
lature changed the law or not, but we did
have the party primaries in September,
and of course that would be after the date
of the national convention in presidential
years. I think if we do not have it in there,
that we ought to have some provision re-
quiring the General Assembly to set the
date for primary elections in ample time
so that delegates could be elected to the
various state conventions and then the
state conventions could have time to meet
to send their delegates to the National
Convention.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Ross, do
you understand the question?
DELEGATE KOSS: There is nothing in
S&E-1 or S&E-2 requiring the General
Assembly to set the primary at any time.
It is their prerogative as it has been in
the past, to change the date of the primary
or to establish any point they think best.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weide-
meyer.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Do you
have any objection to an amendment that
would so state?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koss?
I do not think this is a proper time to
ask that question. If you want to have
such a limitation it should be submitted as
an amendment to section 6 when we get
to it.
Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: I would just like to
tell Delegate Weidemeyer that the new law
that was passed last year by the General
Assembly now makes it possible for the
members of the state central committee to
elect your delegates to your national con-
vention.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weide-
meyer.
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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: The point
that we are all trying to make is to pre-
serve a democracy in which all of the peo-
ple of the party participate.
THE CHAIRMAN: There are no fur-
ther amendments at this time to section 1.
Are there any further amendments to
section 2?
(There was no response.)
The Chair hears none. Are there any
amendments to section 3?
Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: Mr. Chairman,
I have an amendment which is in the proc-
ess of preparation. It will remove the last
sentence from section 3, but I am willing
to pass over it if that is to be preferred
at this time.
THE CHAIRMAN: We will come back
to it.
Are there any amendments to section 4?
Delegate Storm? Your amendment M?
DELEGATE STORM: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: The pages will
please distribute Amendment M.
This will be marked Amendment No. 11.
For what purpose does Delegate Raley
rise?
DELEGATE RALEY: A point of in-
quiry.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE RALEY: It was my under-
standing that we were going to have the
opportunity to ask a couple of questions.
On section 4 I have a couple of questions.
THE CHAIRMAN: I am sorry, you will
have that opportunity.
Delegate Koss, do you wish to make a
further presentation with respect to sec-
tion 4?
DELEGATE KOSS: A very brief one.
THE CHAIRMAN: Do you wish to come
up to the reading desk?
DELEGATE KOSS: No. As we pointed
out in our memorandum under the con-
trolling court interpretation of the resi-
dence requirement in the Maryland Con-
stitution, persons who reside on land over
which the United States has jurisdiction
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