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permission. The amendment is withdrawn. One should never

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speak too hastily.

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As a matter of a little variation and some

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interest, I think I will have to take a few minutes to

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tell you the results of a chance remark made by the Chair

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in the spirit of levity in the colloquy with Delegate

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Hanson dealing with Amendment 1.

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I realized in referring, as I did, to the possi-

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bility that there was a delegate in the Constitutional

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Convention of 1787 named Hanson that my history was perhaps

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defective, so I quick sent a little note to my good friend

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Delegate Adkins asking if I wasn't a bit off and he said,

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"Yes, I think you are".

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Following that and several other notes I am

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now presented with the results of research. I have been

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sent up the Encyclopedia Brittanica with an article on

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John Hanson, who was indeed not the delegate to the

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Constitutional Convention of 1787 -- he having departed

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this life before it convened -- but was the first

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President of the United States under the Articles of

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Confederation, the Maryland Manual, which lists John Hanson