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has over the past century.

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I would like to remind this Convention that the

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short-lived Constitution of 1864 went into some detail,

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as Delegate Pullen has said, and it was then all changed

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in 1867, and I would say to you that the changes that have

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occurred are a tremendous tribute to that legislature which

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some of us seem to hold in such little esteem.

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THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-half minute, Dele-

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gate Jett.

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DELEGATE JETT: In our opinion, it is absolutely

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essential that we do not freeze the framework within which

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education operates, that we don't set up any State board

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with a control, that we do not set up any geographic

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situations, but that we leave education free to be the

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concern of every man, woman and child in this State.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley.

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DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chairman, before we

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begin, an opinion of parliamentary inquiry. Is this to be

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treated as an amendment rather than an amendment to the

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amendment?

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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't understand what you mean