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of the people at the next general election. To now say

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nevertheless notwithstanding whatever the people may do

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at this next general election approving or rejecting

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constitutional convention, to now say that there shall be

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automatically a new convention in fifty years, it seems

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to me is putting a term ceiling on the life of what we are

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doing here today.

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Delegate Needle in his presentation of the

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minority report did say the conditions and times fifty

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years from now won't be what they are today. Perhaps he

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is right. Perhaps his crystal ball is a little better than

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mine. You don't know what the conditions are going to

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be fifty years from now. It seems a shame for us to go

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to all this trouble and make a constitution that we hope

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will be equally as durable with all good luck and results

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as the one you are now enjoying, to say it will auto-

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matically die in fifty years seems like a waste of time and

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effort here now.

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I seriously urge that the convention reject

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this amendment and say the constitution we are working

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on will live until it is changed by the wishes of the