Maryland to vote in November on whether to hold constitutional convention

Washington Post
July 5, 2010

With July Fourth complete, it's time to face a real test of independence: If you have the right to tear up and rewrite your constitution, should you?

It's not an academic exercise this year in Maryland. It's a question on the November ballot.

Maryland is one of 14 states with a constitutional requirement designed to make voters decide at least once a generation whether to start over. The protection goes back to the Founding Fathers and the thinking that, every now and then in a healthy democracy, the People probably have to shake things up.

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