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1	a very controversial thing. As I pointed out before,
2	I have found rom my observations and my polls I have
3	taken a great many people against it. I don't feel that
4	the new Constitution, as important as it is, should be
5	jeopardized by inserting a controversial matter that
6	doesn't belong there in the first place.
7	In regard to the lottery itself, I don't
8	intend to go into great detail about the arguments in
9	favor of having a state-operated lottery. This is just
10	incidental to the question before you. But I would like
11	to point out that I have a list here of 81 foreign
12	countries that have lotteries. I think it is out of
13	place to have a provision in our new Maryland Constitution
14	which goes against the trend, world-wide trend, which is
15	going in favor of lotteries. We have all the European
16	countries having lotteries. We have the Asian countries,
17	African countries, the whole Western Hemisphere has
18	lotteries except -- that includes, of course, South
19	America -- except for the United States and Canada. -As
20	you know, we do have one state here which has authorized
21	a lottery, New Hampshire. I might remark that the