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representative and reapportioned legislature should be able

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to handle the initiation of amendments to the Constitution.

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I think that it will be able to handle them with one

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important exception, one area of important exception,

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and that is the area of reform of the Legislative Branch

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itself.

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I believe we in this convention have done much fron

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the point of view of our own judgment in this place and in

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this time to reform the Legislature to improve its pro-

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cedures and to make it an effective branch of the govern-

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ment.

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I think that all of us would confess, however,

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that we may not have the last word in wisdom on what

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the future structure of the Legislature should be. I

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think the one thing that we can observe is that there is

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probably no group of people in creation less likely

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to reform themselves than the members of the Legislature

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when the time for that reform has arrived, and it is for

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this reason that it seems to me, and for this paramount

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reason, that we should provide in the Constitution a

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means external to the Legislature for the revision of that