Yep, I am black and I try to get my close family into guns and most just don't seem interested. I did get my sister to get her HQL and shoot with me though.
Thanks for being an ambassador.
Yep, I am black and I try to get my close family into guns and most just don't seem interested. I did get my sister to get her HQL and shoot with me though.
The thing that still confuses me about MD is the Bicameral house. It is my understanding that it was originally laid out more like our federal set up. Delegates were based on population and Senate was 1 or 2 per county. However, somewhere in the past they changed this to both being determined by population. If both are by population than why have 2 houses? Does anyone have more information on this. Wonder if it would be possible to try and turn it back to how it was so country folk actually had some say in how the State was run. Would be cool to say how large parts of the state have been disenfranchised by this and it needs to be reversed.
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The thing that still confuses me about MD is the Bicameral house. It is my understanding that it was originally laid out more like our federal set up. Delegates were based on population and Senate was 1 or 2 per county. However, somewhere in the past they changed this to both being determined by population. If both are by population than why have 2 houses? Does anyone have more information on this. Wonder if it would be possible to try and turn it back to how it was so country folk actually had some say in how the State was run. Would be cool to say how large parts of the state have been disenfranchised by this and it needs to be reversed.
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There was a lawsuit brought against the Senate representation and the courts ruled that the state could not do as the federal government does and had to elect the Senators based on population. I believe the lawsuit was sometime in the 60's???
Apologies - you may not have seen it. Post 17. I think this is it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
The thing that still confuses me about MD is the Bicameral house. It is my understanding that it was originally laid out more like our federal set up. Delegates were based on population and Senate was 1 or 2 per county. However, somewhere in the past they changed this to both being determined by population. If both are by population than why have 2 houses? Does anyone have more information on this. Wonder if it would be possible to try and turn it back to how it was so country folk actually had some say in how the State was run. Would be cool to say how large parts of the state have been disenfranchised by this and it needs to be reversed.
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For what its worth, I think the Supreme court was incorrect in their decisions on this matter during the '60's and may have violated states rights in the 9th and 10th amendments.
1964 ruling. Earl Warren. It's a lock.
Amendment V further clarifies. It also adds a due process requirement . Maryland's red flag law (HB1302) plainly thumbs its nose at this amendment as well as the COTUS and hundreds of years of law.
Article 24.
That no man ought to be taken or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or, in any manner, destroyed, or
deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or by the Law of the land. (1977, ch. 681, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.)
Article 2 of the Maryland Constitution would seem to be incompatible with Gov. Hogan's action today.
Last I checked, the first amendment protects our right to peaceably assemble and our right to freely exercise religion. His order today would seem to prohibit my church, for example, from holding services (as we have over 250 present every Sunday). His order would prevent just about any gathering for any purpose that would have more than 250 people. Who gave him that power? It would seem that Title 14 of the Maryland Public Safety code would. This seems like too much power for just one man to wield.