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students, but boards, administrators and commissions are

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but the instruments to achieve our goals; and they are not

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entitled to a higher priority or a greater indulgence than

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the students themselves. The system and those who keep

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its heirarchy are not our first consideration. The preser-

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vation of the system is but secondary to the achievement

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and the opportunity for continuing improvement.

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My objection, therefore, is against the consti-

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tutional language of the Majority, which is rigid and de-

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tailed rather than flexible and brief. My objection is

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directed against the philosophy which would make a matter

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of constitutional language that which has heretofore been

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statutory, when the entire thrust of this Convention is to

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render statutory that which has in earlier times been consti-

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tutional.

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What the Majority seeks is to calcify consti-

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tutionally the system or the superstructure, but improvement,

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expansion and a seal for the excellence nowhere here finds

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the same mantle of constitutional protection which the in-

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habitants of the system would have for it.

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Now, the attempt to reflect geographical