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would be appointed within sixty days after a convention

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is called. It must then organize, conduct its research,

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its hearings, its deliberations, print its recommendations,

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well before the election of delegates hopefully.

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It would be impossible, I submit, to do

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all this within the time otherwise permitted by Committee

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Recommendation GP-8 which, if you figure carefully, would

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be approximately six months.

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I think the work of the constitutional

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convention commission for this convention has been extremely

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valuable to this convention. They did a marvelous job.

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It took them about two years to do that job. I think any

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future commission should be given a fair chance to do an

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equally good job.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer .

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DELEGATE BOYER: Mr. Chairman, ladies and

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gentlemen of the committee, I think finally the sponsor of

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this proposal, this amendment, and the committee may

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not be too far apart. The issue is very clear. I

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concur with Delegate Needle in his laudatory accolade

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of the commission draft presented to us here before we