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hope it will endure for a great period of time. However,

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by virtue of the nature of our deliberative body, we

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made many compromises and some provisions have been

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written and will be adopted which may very well not be to

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the liking of all. I submit that many of those provisions

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as Delegate Scanlan has pointed out on numerous occasions,

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are unnecessary, are too detailed, are inflexible, and

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are statutory in nature.

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In addition, I doubt that we are sufficiently

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wise and visionary to create a document which will last

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forever or even a hundred years as the current Constitution

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has lasted. I think our Constitution will and should

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reflect the thoughts of our time. It should definitely

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be a living document.

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Therefore, it will not necessarily be

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representative of the views of the time a hundred years

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from now or even fifty years from now. The relationship

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of government to society is changing rapidly and our

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society is increasing in its complexity at an alarming

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rate.

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I am not being critical for sure of the job