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the Executive Department whose function is to enforce

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the laws that are made by the Legislative Branch.

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I would respectfully suggest for these and

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many other reasons that Amendment B be rejected and allow

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this to the elected representatives of the people to

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call a Constitutional Convention.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Any further discussion? Delegate

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Hardwicke.

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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Mr. Chairman, in support

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of the amendment, let me say that the whole purpose of

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these series of amendments ts to make it easy for

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this state to have a Constitutional Convention. I

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think all of us are aware that beginning about 1916

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the old Constitution was getting a little bit creaky,

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as it were, and yet it took us fifty years to get a

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Constitutional Convention.

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We feel that not only should this thing be

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in the hands of the General Assembly, we submit that it

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ought to be in the hands of the Governor and also the

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people. If you vote for this amendment, you are going

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to create one manner in which it will be easy to get a