BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

[No. 10, September Term, 1967, (Adv.).]

246 Md. 417 (1967)

229 A.2d 388

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, ET AL. v. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MARYLAND, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Opinion filed April 14, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Blum, William W. Cahill, Jr. and Mark D. Coplin, with whom were Weinberg & Green and John A. Blondell on the brief, for Board of Supervisors of Elections for Anne Arundel County, part of appellants, and C. Maurice Weidemeyer for Joshua F. Cockey of B., other appellant.

Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Alan M. Wilner, Assistant Attorney General, and Robert F. Sweeney, Deputy Attorney General, for Attorney General of Maryland, et al., part of appellees, and Joseph Sherbow, for Maryland State Bar Association, other appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and FINAN, JJ.


Decided per curiam on March 7, 1967.

HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court. BARNES, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 445, infra.

In June of 1965 Governor Tawes appointed a Commission to study the necessity for revision of the Constitution of Maryland, to determine whether a convention should be held to prepare the revision and to suggest the procedures for the calling and holding...

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