10,690a

1

has not been your way throughout this convention. I ask

2

you now to depart somewhat radically in Amendment 5.

3

In case all other methods of calling a

4

constitutional convention fail, I suggest that we mandate

5

in the constitution that a specified period of time be

6

indicated at which a constitutional convention shall meet.

7

Although I know any such period will necessarily be

8

arbitrary, I think fifty years under all the circumstances

9

is reasoaable.

10

It is obvious that we are going to experience

11

a very rapid growth in the complexity of our society and

12

the concomitant increasing involvement and changing

13

pattern of relationship of government to this society and

14

it is ever more obvious that there need be a revision of

15

our basic structure of government to keep pace with that

16

increasingly complex society which will grow by geometric

17

proportions, surely disproportionately with the past.

18

Therefore, our constitution probably will not

19

and should not last anything near a hundred years. As I

20

said, it is and should be a living document reflecting

21

current feelings and attitudes. It will not necessarily