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I would just like to remind the Committee of

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the Whole that very recently we adopted a committee

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recommendation, that we had an equal protection clause

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in our own Constitution and I would think the intent of

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the protection clause should be the minimum, that all laws

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of the state apply equally to all men of the state and I

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would think this is the intention of this amendment.

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I would suggest that you adopt it.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Does anyone wish to speak against

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the amendment?

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Delegate Weidemeyer.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER? Mr. President, I would

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like to state briefly that I am opposed to the amendment.

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This matter has been before the lawyers for several years

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and it has been argued pro and con and some of the lawyers

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who were opposed to this in our Constitution have been

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down before the Legislature trying to get them to pass

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a Constititional amendment to take it out, but the

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majority have always prevailed, I think, and we have

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left it in our Constitution.

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It has been in there over a hundred years , and