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methods. This would be the shotgun behind the door.

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Beside the petition, the geographical spread required would

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avoid the danger of its promiscuous use, but had such a

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provision be in the 1867 constitution it would not have been

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necessary to wait 40 years for legislative reapportionment."

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I might add, further, that had this kind of

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constitutional procedure been in the 1867 constitution

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we would not have had to wait until 1967 to get a convention

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for once the Attorney General's opinion had been expressed

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in 1930, it would have been possible for the people of

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the state to initiate a petition and get a convention

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at a much earlier date.

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While it is true that only Judge Sherbow and I

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would have been members of that convention from among the

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present Delegates, even so we would have had a convention

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some 30 years sooner.

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In other areas of the country this kind of

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constitutional initiative has proved particularly

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successful, in some places. I am not unaware that there

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are situations in which it has not done so well, and

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I will tell you where it is. It has not done verv well