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being mentioned.

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I would like to commend the delegates and the

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City of Annapolis, and especially the business community,

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for the spirit of democracy that has been shown during the

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three months that we have been here. Once before I

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mentioned that Maryland was the United States in minia-

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ture, and I meant just that — I didn't mean American

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miniature, because that is too all-inclusive.

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I would like to say again that the members of th:.s

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Constitutional Convention have been the United States in

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miniature again.

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We come from Maryland, which represents so many

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different thoughts, so many different opinions, so many

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different backgrounds, and so much that is very, very

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different.

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Personally I hope the other Negro delegates can

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say the same thing - I don't think that there has been

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anything that has caused us to feel that we were not

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treated as first-class citizens.

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Just two years ago I would not have been able

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to stand on the floor and say that, because that was