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in California. There are a lot of things that don't

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do very well in California, and one reason that this didn't

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work in California was that the petition required was a very

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low petition, and they got in the habit in California of

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signing petitions and they haven't been able to get out of it,

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The average size of the petition across the

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country in this respect is ten per cent, exactly where

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I have placed it here.

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Michigan was able a few years ago to get their

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constitutional convention going only because they had this

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in their constitution, and the current issue of the

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Journal of the American Judicatory Society tells what is

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happening in Oklahoma. There is a movement for judicial

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reform in Oklahoma very much like the one that we have

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just endorsed, and the reason that it is being put on the

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ballot in Oklahoma this year is that there was a petition

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of this sort being circulated, and the General Assembly

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of Oklahoma or the State Legislature of Oklahoma decided

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that they would get their own version of it on the ballot

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first, so that is the way it got on there. This is another

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case of the shotgun.