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§ 1	The Legislature shall consist of two distinct branches; a Senate,...
§ 2	The membership of the Senate shall consist of forty–seven (47) Senators....
§ 3	The State shall be divided by law into legislative districts for...
§ 4	Each legislative district shall consist of adjoining territory,...
§ 5	Following each decennial census of the United States and after public...
§ 6	A member of the General Assembly shall be elected by the registered...
§ 7	The election for Senators and Delegates shall take place on the...
§ 9	A person is eligible to serve as a Senator or Delegate, who on the...
§ 10	No member of Congress, or person holding any civil, or military...
§ 11	No person holding any civil office of profit, or trust, under this...
§ 12	No Collector, Receiver, or Holder of public money shall be eligible...
§ 13	In case of death, disqualification, resignation, refusal to act,...
§ 14	The General Assembly shall meet on the second Wednesday of January,...
§ 15	The General Assembly may continue its session so long as in its...
§ 16	No book, or other printed matter not appertaining to the business...
§ 17	No Senator or Delegate, after qualifying as such, notwithstanding...
§ 18	No Senator or Delegate shall be liable in any civil action, or criminal...
§ 19	Each House shall be judge of the qualifications and elections of...
§ 20	A majority of the whole number of members elected to each House...
§ 21	The doors of each House, and of the Committee of the Whole, shall...
§ 22	Each House shall keep a Journal of its proceedings, and cause the...
§ 23	Each House may punish by imprisonment, during the session of the...
§ 24	The House of Delegates may inquire, on the oath of witnesses, into...
§ 25	Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for...
§ 26	The House of Delegates shall have the sole power of impeachment...
§ 27	Any bill may originate in either House of the General Assembly and...
§ 28	No bill, nor single group of bills placed on the "consent calendar,"...
§ 29	The style of all Laws of this State shall be, "Be it enacted by...
§ 30	Every bill, when passed by the General Assembly, and sealed with...
§ 31	A Law passed by the General Assembly shall take effect the first...
§ 32	No money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the State, by any order...
§ 33	The General Assembly shall not pass local, or special Laws, in any...
§ 34	No debt shall be hereafter contracted by the General Assembly unless...
§ 35	Extra compensation may not be granted or allowed by the General...
§ 35A	Nothing in this Constitution shall exempt the salary or compensation...
§ 36	No lottery grant shall ever hereafter be authorized by the General...
§ 38	No person shall be imprisoned for debt, but a valid decree of a...
§ 39	The books, papers and accounts of all banks shall be open to inspection...
§ 40	The General Assembly shall enact no Law authorizing private property,...
§ 40A	The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private property...
§ 40B	The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private property...
§ 40C	The General Assembly shall enact no law authorizing private property...
§ 43	The property of the wife shall be protected from the debts of her...
§ 44	Laws shall be passed by the General Assembly, to protect from execution...
§ 45	The General Assembly shall provide a simple and uniform system of...
§ 46	The General Assembly shall have power to receive from the United...
§ 48	Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be...
§ 49	The General Assembly shall have power to regulate by Law, not inconsistent...
§ 50	It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, at its first session,...
§ 51	The personal property of residents of this State, shall be subject...
§ 52	The General Assembly shall not appropriate any money out of the...
§ 54	No County of this State shall contract any debt, or obligation,...
§ 55	The General Assembly shall pass no Law suspending the privilege...
§ 56	The General Assembly shall have power to pass all such Laws as may...
§ 57	The Legal Rate of Interest shall be Six per cent. per annum; unless...
§ 58	The Legislature shall provide by Law for State and municipal taxation...
§ 59	The Legislature shall pass no law creating the office of "State...
§ 60	The General Assembly of Maryland shall have the power to provide...
§ 61	The General Assembly may authorize and empower any county or any...

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