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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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feel as bad as the legislature, or the problems the

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legislature has, I think now, once you set it up arid

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once a legislature has been convinced it has to be

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reapportioned, it took us two years to redistrict the

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City of Baltimore, as you well know, but we did it.

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It took a lot of fighting and arguing and we did it,

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but we did it; but I would be frankly scared to death to

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say to the Governor, that he do it.

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MR. HARVEY: Suppose you said if the legis-

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lature didn't do it within a certain time, that the

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Governor could do it?

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DELEGATE HANDEL: That's what we did in the

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bill we passed. If the legislature didn't do it, the

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Governor -- the Governor is doing it now in Western

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Maryland. They couldn't arrive at their redistricting

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and the Governor is doing it.

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SENATOR JAMES: One thing I think ought to be

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in there, there ought to be a constitutional directive

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to reapportion every ten years at a minimum because, if

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you don't do that, in the past we've just had the legis-

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lature ignoring this mandate and —



 

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