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Constitutional Revision Study Documents of the Constitutional Convention Commission, 1968
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CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS

[THE REFERENDUM]

COMPARISON

Headnotes

Present
Constitution

Constitution of
1867

Constitution of
1864

Constitution of
1851

Constitution of
1776

Amendments to
1776 Constitution

 

 

case an officer shall qualify
out of the County in which
he resides, an official copy of
his oath shall be filed and
recorded in the Clerk's office
of the Circuit Court of the
County in which he may
reside, or in the Clerk's office
of the Superior Court of the
City of Baltimore, if he shall
reside therein. All words or
phrases, used in creating
public offices and positions
under the Constitution and
Laws of this State, which
denote the masculine gender
shall be construed to include
the feminine gender, unless
the contrary intention is
specifically expressed.

case an officer shall qualify
out of the County in which
he resides, an official copy
of his oath shall be filed and
recorded in the Clerk's office
of the Circuit Court of the
County in which he may
reside, or in the Clerk's of-
fice of the Superior Court
of the City of Baltimore, if
he shall reside therein.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office: prohi-
bition against
holding1 by the
one who favors
overthrow of
government by
force.

Sec. 11. No person who is
a member of an organization
that advocates the over-
throw of the Government of
the United States or of the
State of Maryland through
force or violence shall be
eligible to hold any office,
be it elective or appointive,
or any other position of
profit or trust in the Govern-
ment of or in the administra-
tion of the business of this
State or of any county,
municipality or other politi-
cal subdivision of this State.

 

 

Art. Ill, sec. 47. The
General Assembly shall pass
laws requiring the president,
directors, trustees, or agents
of corporations created or
authorized by the laws of ,
this State, teachers or super-
intendents of the public
schools, colleges, or other
institutions of learning; at-
torneys-at-law, jurors, and
such other persons as the
General Assembly shall from
time to time prescribe, to
take the oath of allegiance
to the United States, set
forth in the first article of j
this Constitution.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE XVI.
THE REFERENDUM.

[Added by Chapter 673,
Acts of 1914; ratified No-
vember 2, 1915. Amended
by Chapter 6, Acts of 1962;
ratified November 6, 1962.
For text see pp. 399-402 of
the report of the con-
stitutional convention
commission (1967).]

 

 

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