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1916. No witnesses, and I want to emphasize this fact,

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suggested that this whole constitutional structure that

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has been presented by the Majority should be in the Con-

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stitution.

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Delegate Wheatley is correct, there were 21

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hearing dates and 83 witnesses, and the bulk of these

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people were in educational bureaucracy, but what he did

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not mention was that virtually all of these witnesses

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addressed their attention to the language of the Draft

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Constitution, recommended change in wording here and

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there, but none, and I repeat, none recommended that we

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expand this into a nine-section article on the subject of

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education.

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This idea, it is submitted, was solely that of

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the Majority of this Committee and did not represent any

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part of the testimony of witnesses, much less the bulk

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of the testimony.

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Now, the specter of local government article

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has been raised with respect to local boards, and the

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Minority feels that this is really the reddest of red

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herrings, because under the local government article as