PREFACE

This volume is in two parts. Part I presents a comparison of the present Constitution
of the State of Maryland with the Constitution proposed by the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1967-1968. The present Declaration of Rights and Constitution is printed
section by section seriatim in the left column of pages 1 to 116. In the right column
of these same pages directly opposite those provisions of the present Declaration of
Rights or Constitution with which they correspond are set forth the provisions of the
proposed Constitution of 1968. In Part II of this volume comprising pages 117 to 225,
the converse arrangement is followed, that is, the entire text of the proposed Consti-
tution of 1968 is printed section by section seriatim in the left column and in the right
column directly opposite are set forth the corresponding provisions of the present Decla-
ration of Rights and Constitution. In an appendix comprising pages 226 to 233 are
printed those sections of the present Constitution which have no counterpart in the
proposed Constitution and deal with a subject matter not dealt with in the proposed
Constitution.

Because the proposed Constitution of 1968 is arranged differently from the present
Constitution, the sections of the proposed Constitution as printed in the right column
of Part I do not appear in numerical order. Nevertheless, the article numbers of the
various sections of the proposed Constitution have not been printed in the right column
of Part I because the numbering system used in the proposed Constitution of 1968 readily
identifies the article in which each section is included, inasmuch as the first digit to the
left of the decimal point in each section number is the number of the article in which
the section is included.

There are many provisions in the present Constitution which have no counterpart in
the proposed Constitution. In these instances, the space in the right column of Part I
opposite the section of the present Constitution for which there is no corresponding pro-
vision in the proposed Constitution of 1968 is left blank. In other instances, the subject
matter of one section of the present Constitution may be covered by several sections of the
proposed Constitution. In these cases, the several sections of the proposed Constitution
are printed opposite the corresponding section of the present Constitution. This accounts
for the blank spaces which appear from time to time in the left column of Part I. As
noted below, such of those sections of the present Constitution as have no counter-
part in the proposed Constitution of 1968 and deal with a subject matter not dealt with
at all in the proposed Constitution of 1968 are also printed in an appendix to Part II
on pages 226 to 233.

Because of the different arrangement of the two Constitutions, there are many
instances in which material included in one section of the present Constitution is
covered or referred to in several sections of the proposed Constitution and these sections
of the proposed Constitution also refer in turn to provisions contained in several sections
of the present Constitution. Rather than print the sections of the proposed Constitution
more than once in the right column of Part I, cross-references are used in each instance
where a section of the proposed Constitution is pertinent to a provision of the present
Constitution, but the pertinent section of the proposed Constitution has already been
printed earlier in the right column of Part I.

There are also sections of the proposed Constitution of 1968 which have no counter-
part in the present Constitution. These sections are printed in the right column of Part I
at the end of each pertinent article of the present Constitution. Thus, for example, follow-
ing the Declaration of Rights of the present Constitution as printed in Part I, on page 10
in the right column will be found Sections 1.06 and 1.10 of the proposed Constitution,
neither of which has any exact counterpart in the present Constitution. Similarly, follow-

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