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1 Report of Maine Constitutional Commission 1 (1963)

handle is hein.statecon/rptmneccm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ONE HUNDRED AND FIRST LEGISLATURE Legislative Document No. 33 S. P. 40 In Senate, January 9, 1963 Communication and Report. Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amend- ments and Legislative Reapportionment. Sent down for concurrence and ordered printed in document form. CHESTER T. WINSLOW, Secretary STATE OF MAINE IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MAINE: FIRST REPORT OF MAINE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION This is the first report of the Commission appointed in January 1962 by the Governor to study the Constitution of the State of Maine. This Commis- sion was directed to report to the 101st Legislature such changes and amend- ments to the Constitution of the State as appeared to it to be necessary or desirable. The Commission has decided that it can best discharge its duties by ren- dering to the 1o1st Legislature a series of reports covering various Articles in the Maine Constitution with proposed amendments thereto. In its concluding report the Commission will discuss, at least in summary form, the history of the Maine Constitution and of amendments proposed thereto since its adoption. Such report will also review the work of the Commission from the date of its organization in January 1962 and make such recommendations as may then seem advisable concerning future studies of the Constitution and of specific provisions thereof. This report is concerned with Articles I and II of the Constitution. We believe that the Declaration of Rights set forth in Article I of the Con- stitution is still an adequate statement of the protections guaranteed to the individual Maine citizen under the constitutional form of government orig- inally adopted in this State in 1820. Admittedly, there are a number of Sections of the Maine Declaration of Rights which have become of limited or of no importance. For example, Section 23 forbidding the granting of any title of nobility or hereditary dis-

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