context: It is a well settled principle that "a State Legislature may not enact laws that are in derogation of the Constitution."
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 393 U.S. 23, 29
citation_a.parenthetical: "[W]e must reject the notion that Art. II, SS 1 [of the United States Constitution] gives the States power to impose burdens on the right to vote, where such burdens are expressly prohibited in other [state] constitutional provisions"
citation_a.sentence: See, e.g., Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 29, 89 S.Ct. 5, 10, 21 L.Ed.2d 24, 29 (1968) (“[W]e must reject the notion that Art. II, § 1 [of the United States Constitution] gives the States power to impose burdens on the right to vote, where such burdens are expressly prohibited in other [state] constitutional provisions”); Langhammer v. Munter, 80 Md. 518, 527, 31 A. 300, 301-02 (1895) (“But whatever may be done, no restrictions can be imposed that will require other or different qualifications for voting, than those prescribed by the first Article of the Constitution of the State)”; Kemp v. Owens, supra, 76 Md. at 239, 24 A. at 607 (Bryan, J., concurring) (“We cannot add anything to the qualifications prescribed in the constitution; neither can we take anything from them”); Southerland v. Norris, 74 Md. 326, 328, 22 A. 137, 137 (1891) (“[Qualifications [for voting in Maryland], fixed by the organic law, can neither be enlarged nor curtailed by the General Assembly”).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 912 A.2d 674, 685
citation_b.parenthetical: "[T]he constitutional authority to implement a constitutional provision ... does not authorize the General Assembly by statute or this Court by rule to contradict or amend the Constitution"
citation_b.sentence: Lamone v. Capozzi 396 Md. 53, 73, 912 A.2d 674, 685 (2006), citing Bienkowski v. Brooks, 386 Md. 516, 546, 873 A.2d 1122, 1140 (2005) (“[T]he constitutional authority to implement a constitutional provision ... does not authorize the General Assembly by statute or this Court by rule to contradict or amend the Constitution”); Washabaugh v. Washabaugh, 285 Md. 393, 411, 404 A.2d 1027, 1037 (1979) (noting that the constitutional authority to implement a constitutional provision, by rules, does not authorize a rule which is inconsistent with that provision, as it would be a “license ... to make a substantive change in the Maryland constitution ..., a result we do not think was contemplated by the drafters.... ”).