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this Constitution? Are we preparing it for the attorneys

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of this State? Are we preparing it for the people of the

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State? "

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And, I might add, is there not a meeting ground

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between all?

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I don't want to digress except that I think I

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should say when I notice the names that are affixed to this

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amendment, I shudder with the ability and knowledge that

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stands behind it.

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On the other hand, it happens that I have had an

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unusual amount of jury experience. I feel that; someone

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should speak on the matter from the standpoint of the

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layman, and therefore I do so.

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I recognize that it is unique, and I do not

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think that that is a reason either to keep it, or to

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discard it. I think that there are three basic questions.

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If these gentlemen behind me can hear me, how do we have

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it? Whence did it come? Should we keep it?

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We and our ancestors in England have had it

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for at least 200 years. I can't trace it back of that.

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Sir William Poultney, who lived from 1684, and I don't think