COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	Sec. 6. The General Assembly shall pass
	all such Laws as may be necessary more
	fully to carry into effect the provisions of
	this Article.
	ARTICLE XIV. AMENDMENTS TO THE
	CONSTITUTION.
	Section 1. The General Assembly may	Section 10.03. Constitutional Amendment.
	propose Amendments to this Constitution;	An amendment to this Constitution may
	provided that each Amendment shall be	be proposed either by the affirmative vote of
	embraced in a separate bill, embodying the	three-fifths of. all the members of each house
	Article or Section, as the same will stand	of the General Assembly or by the affirma-
	when amended and passed by three-fifths of	tive vote of a majority of all the members of
	all the members elected to each of the two	a constitutional convention. Any proposed
	Houses, by yeas and nays, to be entered	amendment shall be submitted to the voters
	on the Journals with the proposed Amend-	of the State at a special or general election
	ment. The bill or bills proposing amend-	as determined by the General Assembly or
	ment or amendments shall be published by	by the convention, whichever proposes the
	order of the Governor, in at least two	amendment. Notice of the election shall be
	newspapers, in each County, where so many may be published, and where not more than	given as the General Assembly shall prescribe by law. Unless otherwise provided, the
	one may be published, then in that news-	amendment shall become effective thirty days
	pape.r, and in three newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, once a week for	after approval by the vote of a majority of those voting on the amendment.
	four weeks immediately preceding the next
	ensuing general election, at which the pro-
	posed amendment or amendments shall be
	submitted, in a form to be prescribed by the
	General Assembly, to the qualified voters
	of the State for adoption or rejection. The
	votes cast for and against said proposed
	amendment or amendments, severally, shall
	be returned to the Governor, in the manner
	prescribed in other cases, and if it shall
	appear to the Governor that a majority of
	the votes cast at said election on said
	amendment or amendments, severally, were
	cast in favor thereof, the Governor shall,
	by his proclamation, declare the said amend-
	ment or amendments having received said
	majority of votes, to have been adopted by
	the people of Maryland as part of the
	Constitution thereof, and thenceforth said
	amendment or amendments shall be part
	of the said Constitution. When two or more
	amendments shall be submitted in manner
	aforesaid, to the voters of this State at the
	same election, they shall be so submitted
	as that each amendment shall be voted on
	separately.
	Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the	Section 10.04. Constitutional Convention.
	General Assembly to provide by Law for taking, at the general election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and seventy, and every twenty years thereafter, the sense of the People in regard to calling a Con-	The General Assembly by law may call a constitutional convention at any time or may submit the question of calling a constitution- al convention to the voters of the State at any time. If a constitutional convention shall
	vention for altering this Constitution;	not have been called or if the question of

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