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than one-fourth of the petition should come from any one

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county.

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I am very serious about this one- fourth. I don't

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want amendments to pop up all over the place. I want this

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to be used only in very extreme cases where other ways of

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getting amendments seem to be impossible.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer, do you desire to

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speak either in favor or in opposition to the amendment?

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DELEGATE BOYER: Mr. Chairman, I have no strong

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feeling on this one way or another. I would like to report

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what the Committee, however, had adopted. We had considered

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the matter of inclusion of initiative, and there were eight

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reasons why we did not adopt it.

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Number one, we felt that the mandatory provision

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for calling a convention every 25 years, if desired by the

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people, was a safeguard. We felt that the electorate

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should not necessarily control the Legislature.

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We felt that there was a danger of the initiative

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petition by special interest groups.

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We felt that the shortened constitution leaves

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detail to the Legislature, and therefore the amendment