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suffrage and elections and rights and preamble, its heart,

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and now that we have 'included God, I might add its soul.

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Now we turn to the question of the mind. What

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kind of mind will this new being have, this is the sub-

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stance of the report I bring to you today, a question

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which asks each one of you who are thinking delegates to

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keep an open state of mind as we attempt to fashion a mind

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for the State.

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We further suggest that the differences between

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the majority and minority reports in some instances are

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matters of semantics, in others, they are much more. It

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is not, however, merely a question as might be suggested

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by the minority of the long form compared to the short

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form or the specific compared to the general. The differ-

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ences which we suggest are differences of substance and

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not merely of form. We of the majority, and with the

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minority, are saying to you that we should complete the

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picture that has begun. I am certain that the advocates

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of brevity will disagree. The most that can be said is

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that we have been in many instances specific in some areas

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and we say specific as distinct from any concept of