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tional Convention. I think that by virtue of your

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rejection of the initiative for the submission of

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amendments to the Constitution to the people that it is

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now all the more important that you support the proposi-

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tion that the people by petition should have the right

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to call together a Constitutional Convention.

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I submit that the General Assembly in its

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self-interest, as in the past apparently, may not want

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to call a Constitutional Convention. Why then should not

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the Governor have the right to do so?

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By the same token, why should the governor

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have the veto power to reject the calling of a

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Constitutional Convention if we otherwise state the

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General Assembly may call one by law.

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THE CHAIRMAN: You have three minutes including

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time for questions, Delegate Needle.

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DELEGATE NEEDLE: As Delegate Boyer has

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pointed out GP-8 varies the Commission draft in that it

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increases the time, the duration in which the question

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shall be placed on the ballot from twenty to twenty-five

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years. I would prefer to see that duration even shortened.