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1	I have confined my remarks today in accordance
2	with your wishes, largely to Article 3, Section 52 of the
3	Constitution, although inherently some of these things
4	spill over into other areas.
5	When I came up to Maryland first in 1951, on
6	that report, and then in '52 and '53, to overhaul and
7	install the State Budget System, I think at that time I
8	had a fresh opportunity to review its historical basis as
9	well as the correction of some of the major procedural
10	defects, at least, that were there at that time and those
11	things were done in '52 and '53 have not only survived that
12	test of time, but have been adopted by other States as
13	models of approach.
14	Basically, these provisions of the Constitution
15	I really refer to as the "Goodnow" amendments. They came
16	out of the great reform era prior to World War I, beginning
17	with the Taft Commission of the Federal level, although
18	the Feds did not adopt the Federal Budgeting System until
19	1921, at the end of the war.
20	The States went ahead. In the case of Maryland,
21	and West Virginia, as you well know, we have this unusual