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think this is the worse thing that this state can do. I

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think it is the worse thing that could ever happen in

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this country.

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I say to you to support the amendment and strike

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out this ridiculous part of this Constitution and this

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Committee Recommendation.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Bamberger.

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DELEGATE BAMBERGER: Mr. Chairman, I rise to

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speak in opposition to the amendment.

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No constitution should be written by political

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theorists and no constitution should be written by a

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computer. Constitutions are written by people, and every

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constitution expresses the particular hopes and aspira-

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tions and the crises of the civilization in which it is

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written.

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The great difference in our society of today,

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the great crisis in our society, is not the difference

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between black and white and yellow and red. The great

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problem for our society and for our capitalistic society

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is the difference between the rich and the poor, the

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great tragedy within the most affluent nation in the world.