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and that may have been a wise rejection. We are now

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talking about the basic organic structure of our government,

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and I think it behooves us to recognize that the people

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retain that control.

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I think we are representing that very philosophy

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here today, and we should continue it by accepting the

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amendment suggested by Dr. Winslow.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Pascal.

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DELEGATE PASCAL: The same proponents I see for

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this indirect consitutional initiative were almost the

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same on the legislative initiative, and some of the reasons

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we rejected it in Committee were these.

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The law would not have the opportunity to come

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before the General Assembly for debate, and the General

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Assembly would be a total representation.

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Dr. Winslow proposes it come from four counties

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of 23,000 signatures apiece, and I suggest this is not

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total representation which Provision would get in the General

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Assembly.

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Now, another reason for the Committee's rejection

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of indirect initiative in our Committee was this, that