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provision in our State Constitution prohibits the

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operation of a state-operated lottery such as I propose.

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There have been comments made by people who opposed

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my views and by the press as well editorially to the

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effect that any contention to the effect that this

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provision does not exclude a State-operated lottery is

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out of the question, that it is not even debatable. It

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is so clear that nobody should make such a contention

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as I make.

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I would like to point out that no less

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eminent and authority than his Honor Judge Wilson K.

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Barnes, now a member of the Court of Appeals of Maryland,

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made such a contention very forcefully and very well

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documented in a brief that he filed and also in a counter-

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brief he filed in the case of the Citizens Committee of

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Anne Arundel County versus the County Commissioners of

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Anne Arundel County and Southern Maryland Development

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Company, Inc., in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel

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County.

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I am not going to read at length from his

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brief but I would like to quite a part in which Judge