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Delegate Clark to present argument for this, and the only

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thing that I can think to do is ask the Chairman to stop

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the debate for three minutes at some proper time and let us

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listen to Delegate Clark by whatever device we have the

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possibility of reaching him at the hospital.

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A very brief word of explanation of the amendment.

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As Delegate Boyer suggested, there are three normal ways

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of proposing constitutional amendments, two of them

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which are to be found in the Committee report, and the third

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one which is being here submitted.

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This is a third method of proposing amendments

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to those in the Committee report -- three-fifths of both

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Houses or by constitutional convention when held.

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This amendment adds a third one to propose

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an amendment by popular action, by a petition which shall

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require ten per cent of the voters at the last gubernatorial

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convention and demand a geographic spread so that not more

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than one- fourth of those signers may come from any one

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county, leaving it to the General Assembly to fix the

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details of petition and procedure.

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This is the kind of constitutional initiative