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The Referendum in Maryland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

C. I. Winslow
C. I. Winslow
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Goucher College
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Legislative Notes and Reviews
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American Political Science Review , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 1933 , pp. 75 - 79
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1933

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References

1 Article XVI.

2 Winebrenner v. Salmon, 155 Md. 565 (1928).

3 Beale v. State, 131 Md. 669 (1917).

4 Almost one-fourth of all the laws passed in the 1931 session are thus non-referable. On one such local measure, a county-wide petition was filed; but the attorney-general has held it not subject to the referendum.

5 Richardson v. Blackstone, 135 Md. 530.

6 Three petitions have been filed. That on the gasoline-tax law of 1927 was mentioned above. Two others have been filed on acts of the 1931 session. One of these has been declared invalid by the court of appeals; the other has been ruled against by the attorney-general.

7 The general assembly does, however, occasionally pass local legislation subject to popular ratification. Curiously, the court of appeals permits such a reference of local measures while denying the constitutionality of a popular vote on state-wide legislation except by the petition method. Cf. Brawner v. Supervisors, 141 Md. 586 (1922), and Levering v. Supervisors, 137 Md. 281 (1920).

8 In 1929, 392 out of 972 house commitments and 364 out of 858 in the senate, were to “select” committees. For a more extensive study of this kind of local legislation, see the author's recent State Legislative Committees (Baltimore, 1931)Google Scholar.

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