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that in the end Maryland was committed to the ratifica-
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tion of the Fourteenth Amendment did have a psychological
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value for the citizens, the newspaper readers, and I
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think the public at large.
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There was a kind of sigh of relief that we're
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back in the nation. There was less of a feeling of
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resentment, that the decisions of the Supreme Court on
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the Fourteenth Amendment were something that was forced
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down the throat of every Marylahder and it was like
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taking quiet pills, and I think that this kind of thing
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is very difficult to measure, but from my own experience
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in having lived through that, I think it was good therapy
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for the State and I think the same kind of thing would
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be very useful here.
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It would be a very nice thing to calm the
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very doctrinaire state's writers. They wouldn't be able
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to feel so bad. We've got a constituent State document
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that speaks in the same voice. That is the best I can
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do, but that is what we had in mind.
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MR. BROOKS: Thank you.
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MR. GENTRY: But yet a statement all men are
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