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average person in significant determination of state

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government. Consequently, I would urge its adoption.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. Chairman, ladies and

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gentlemen, I would like to go back to some very simple

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definitions. The proposal before you says an amendment

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to the Constitution. That amendment can be a law. If it

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is prepared in the form of an amendment to the

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Constitution, you will need 91,000 signatures based on

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the last election to get that placed before the electorate

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for their determination. It may be a law directed at a

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minority. It may be a law directed at some church-state

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relationship. It may be a law directed at something

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that today we are not cognizant of but in a few years

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when this revolution through which we are living begins

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to take greater hold, it may affect some matter

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where tempers rise, emotions are at their zenith.

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All we have here is 10 per cent of the voters

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in a state that has three and a half million population.

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California, they require 8 per cent of the state with a

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population in excess of fifteen million. They sure made