CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	CONSTITUTION OF 1867	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968
	nevertheless, to the revision of, and amend-	and all other law, including common law, in
	ment or repeal by, the Legislature of this	force on June 80, 1968, insofar as it is not in
	State. And the Inhabitants of Maryland	conflict with this Constitution, shall continue
	are also entitled to all property derived to	in force until it expires by its own limitation
	them from, or under the Charter granted	or is lawfully changed. A law in effect on
	by His Majesty Charles the First to Caecilius	June 30, 1968, shall not be deemed in con-
	Calvert, Baron of Baltimore.	flict with this Constitution solely because it
		was enacted pursuant to authority granted
		by a provision of the Constitution of 1867 as
		amended. All existing writs, actions, suits,
		proceedings, civil or criminal liabilities, pros-
		ecutions, judgments, sentences, orders, de-
		crees, appeals, causes of action, contracts,
		claims, demands, property titles, and rights
		shall continue unaffected except as modified
		by law or in accordance with the provisions
		of this Constitution.
	Art. 6. That all persons invested with
	the Legislative or Executive powers of
	Government are the Trustees of the Public,
	and, as such, accountable for their conduct:
	Wherefore, whenever the ends of Govern-
	ment are perverted, and public liberty
	manifestly endangered, and all other means
	of redress are ineffectual, the People may,
	and of right ought, to reform the old, or
	establish a new Government; the doctrine
	of non-resistence against arbitrary power
	and oppression is absurd, slavish and de-
	structive of the good and happiness of man-
	kind.
	Art. 7. That the right of the People	Section 2. 01. Voters in National, State, and
	to participate in the Legislature is the best	County Elections.
	security of liberty and the foundation of	Every citizen of the United States who has
	all free Government; for this purpose,	attained the age of nineteen years, and who
	elections ought to be free and frequent;	has been a resident of this State for six
	and every white male citizen, having the	months and of the county in which he offers
	qualifications prescribed by the Constitu-	to vote for three months next preceding an
	tion, ought to have the right of suffrage.	election, shall be eligible to vote, and if reg-
		istered shall be qualified to vote in that
		county in national, state, and county elec-
		tions. If any county is divided into different
		electoral districts or into portions of different
		electoral districts for the election of any na-
		tional, state, or county officer, then, to vote
		for such an officer, a person shall have been
		a resident of the electoral district for three
		months next preceding the election. Removal
		from one electoral district to another elector-
		al district in this State shall not deprive u
		person of his qualification to vote in the elec-
		toral district from which he has removed
		until three months after his removal.
	Art. 8. That the Legislative, Executive	Section 3.01. Legislative Power.
	and Judicial powers of Government ought	The legislative power of the State shall be
	to be forever separate and distinct from	vested in the General Assembly, which shall

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