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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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