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which is to be found in one form or another in 13 states.

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I am sorry to say that I can't give you the list of them,

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because I loaned my material to one of the research

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staff a few days ago. It has not been returned, and I don't

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know which one it was or where to find him.

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Mr. E. J. Clarke has a list, so if we need a list

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we can get at it. They do include Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma,

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North Dakota. There are 13 of them.

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Now, the purpose of this amendment, the purpose

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of the initiative for constitutional amendments is that

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in extreme cases a change is possible, but notice that it is

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only in extreme cases, for the provison requires that there

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be ten per cent of the qualified voters.

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When we were debating a general referendum

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procedure earlier it was suggested that a five per cent

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referendum across the State would make it almost impossible

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to get a law referred to the people.

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You will note I am making it twice as difficult

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with ten percent. There is a total of a possible 92,000

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signers through the 1966 gubernatorial election.

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Note also the amendment requires, with respect