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1	Now, I think, when we begin to write the
2	Constitution, we must approach it from a constructive
3	standpoint. This doesn't mean a long-winded affair at
4	all. It can be done in a very few lines, but what you
5	are doing here when you rewrite the Constitution of
6	Maryland, you are rewriting the school system of
Y	Maryland. Not only on the public school level, say from
8	the elementary to high, but preschool, which is most
9	important, and higher education.
10	1 am going to throw one in here gratuitously.
11	I think this, and I think this is a matter of government,
12	I think that any public institution ought to be open to
13	everybody qualified, irrespective of his status, finan-
14	cially or otherwise. That carries you into the field
15	of higher education which in Maryland, and in any number
16	of states, one is deprived of a higher education because
17	he can't afford it, and we are raising fees constantly
18	and denying youth that opportunity. I think it ought to
19	be written into the Constitution, something of that sort;
20	just exactly how it would be done, I don't know. I think
21	controversial statements that we are constantly fighting