Report Of The Majority Of The Committee On The Constitution

Dive into the workings of Maryland's House of Delegates and the Select Committee on the Constitution with this insightful report. Learn about the majority position on key constitutional issues, and gain a deeper understanding of the political processes that shape our government. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Report of the Majority of the Committee on the Constitution, 1848 Though a change in that particular would not, in the judg ment of the undersigned, alter the principle at all, yet it is worthy of remark as a matter of surprise, that, professing as does the re form party, to act upon the principle that the majority should role, they did not provide, if not that a majority of all the legal voters of the State, at least a majority of all voting at the general elec tion should vote for a convention but actually contemplate the assembling of that body upon the call of a minority. The legislature not having the constitutional authority to em power a convention to frame a new government, br to call one for that express purpose, whence do they derive the power to legalize the election of its members? Can they pass laws regulating an election which they cannot constitutionally direct? Or can they prescribe penalties for officers, for the non-performance of duties which they are incompetent to impose? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Report of the Majority of the Select Committee on the Constitution: January 14th, 1850 But assuming for the present, that the majority of the voters in the State are in favor of the convention, provided for in the bill, the undersigned would respectfully ask, with what reason the legislature can oppose itself to this desire. It is quite true that as at present constituted, it represents a minority of the voters in the State and that the distribution of delegates follows an arbitrary rule, which is dependent neither upon territory or population. This circumstance would incline the undersigned to believe, were they in ignorance of the early history of the State, that there was some principle existing in its constitution at variance with the general rule, that government is designed for the greatest good of the grea test number, or some compact by force of which no change could be effected in the constitution itself, except in the manner provided for in that instrument, without the violation of private, or of local rights, of a character too sacred to be rudely disturbed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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