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weeks ago Delegate Gallagher offered an amendment and

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then he offered another amendment, another amendment,

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and some member of this Convention said, Delegate

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Gallagher, what is your whole program? It is my desire

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to present to you my whole program at the outset.

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For that purpose, Delegates Hardwicke and

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Sollins and myself have prepared a memorandum which was

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distributed about a week ago which I hope you have in

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your books, which presents to you the amended section

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on Constitutional Conventions if you were to adopt all

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of the amendments which I am proposing at this time.

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It was prepared in that fashion so that you could see

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clearly exactly the purpose of each amendment.

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I want to say at the outset that each amendment

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which will be voted upon separately and not as a whole

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stands by itself, is severable, is not dependent upon

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any of the other amendments with the exception of the last

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three, which are actually simply housekeeping amendments

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to bring in line the balance of the provision with

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earlier amendments if adopted by this Convention.

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I purposely divided these amendments into nine