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are not willing to say that there is a place in there
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for things that aren't perhaps strictly enforceable.
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MR. SYKES: No. What we were doing in this
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statement was answering a contention that there is no
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point in putting into the Constitution of Maryland, in
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the Declaration of Rights, even, certain legally enforce-
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able rights against the State, because they are binding
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on the State anyway, and the answer to that was that
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there is a psychological value in putting these -legal
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rights, enforceable rights into the Constitution even
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though leaving them out might not affect the legal situa-
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tion any differently than putting them in; but that is
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as far as the statement went.
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It was talking about the educational value
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of a document that is limited to legally enforceable
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rights. Now, for one thing, these legally enforceable
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rights are very definite and relatively clear and not so
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subject to dispute and conflicting ideals that you might
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get into, if you try to write a general prospectus for
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the direction you would like to see the State go
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politically, morally, ethically and everything else.
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