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then it furnishes really no guide. All that it says in

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effect is that we should protect the people against fraud.

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That is what it amounts to, and fraud has infinite variety

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and it denies what is really the basic principle of

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law and order, that is self-help, so for all of those

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reasons I think it would be a mistake to enshrine this

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kind of a general proposition in the Constitution.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koger.

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DELEGATE KOGER: Mr. Chairman and ladies and

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gentlemen: No provision at this convention has received

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greater praise in the local and national newspapers, and

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radio and television, than consumer protection. It was

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the very first thing we did that directly benefited the

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people.

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Everybody is a consumer aad a measure of this

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kind trill interest the people. The main question we will

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be asked is: What did you do for me? You will be saying

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something, and it will appeal to everyone, your neighbor

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and secretary, and certainly your wife, when you can say

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"You know, we added something to the Bill of Rights, a right

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in the marketplace, consumer protection."