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one of them from developing or those words in that

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Constitution that said that the legislature ought to

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encourage the diffusion, of knowledge and virtue and it

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ought to, but I submit, ladies and gentlemen, we are

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not any more knowledgable or virtuous by the fact of these

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words being in the Constitution than we would be if they

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aren't in the Constitution. That is unfortunate . I

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deplore it, but I don't think we help ourselves. I

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think we are kidding ourselves. I think we are kidding

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the people of this State if we put into the Constitution

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words that we cannot enforce, words that we have no

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capacity to find self enforcement for.

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This doesn't guarantee us anything. I think

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the right of collective bargaining which we agreed to

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yesterday does guarantee us something. It is an important

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right. I think economic freedom is very important. I

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think we ought to dedicate ourselves to work for it. I

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think we ought to insure that it gets enacted into the

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laws of this State, but I do not see the utility of

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putting it in the Constitution. I don't believe that this

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advances us one step toward a better annual income for