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at least that is the way it was in the committee — unless

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it was left in there.

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We did something earlier today when we took out

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a right. Now I am finding out we may have permitted

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the judges direct verdicts of guilty. I don't know if that

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is true or not. Surely if we take: this out we don't know

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what we are doing.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate M. Smith.

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DELEGATE M. SMITH: Is it in order to speak

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against the amendment, Mr. Chairman?

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THE CHAIRMAN: Yes.

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DELEGATE M. SMITH: I certainly oppose this

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amendment. Now, we felt it necessary here to state

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that no bill of attainder or ex post facto. law shall be en-

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acted. We felt it necessary there to say that there shall

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be no conviction of crime that shall work corruption of

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blood or harm to the State.

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I for one am not going to take away the prohibi-

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tion against imprisonment for debt.

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Now, I think I am correct in saying that there is

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at least one of the States at the present time, New