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one mess of it.

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What I am saying here is if what we are

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creating for our General Assembly is what we hope will

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bring us that kind of General Assembly that is responsive

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to modern needs, then let's have faith in it. What you j

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are doing here is providing for that which all of those

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who have spoken for indirect initiative and backed away

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from it are now sponsoring, because this does not have

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to be the kind of amendment to the Constitution that would

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pass Delegate Scanlan's inspection. It can be a simple

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law and when it is passed, it is added to the Constitution.

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If you think the present Constitution with a

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couple hundred amendments is something that you are

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trying to clean up and straighten out, just bear in

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mind you are being asked to put into the new one some-

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thing which will let 91,000 people bring to the voters a

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question which they will vote on which may be a very simple

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and sometimes devastating law you may be passing. I

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shall vote against the amendment.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Any other delegate desire to

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speak in favor of the amendment? Any other delegate