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certainly had no intention to create a new state agency

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and if the use of the words is misleading, we would be

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interested primarily that there would be some provision

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which would be a mandate to the General Assembly that the

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election laws be administered uniformly throughout the

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state.

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I cannot really in good conscience argue very

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hotly against this amendment. If any other members of the

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committee would like to do so, they are welcome to it.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Schneider.

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DELEGATE SCHNEIDER: Mr. Chairman and ladies and

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gentlemen: I would suggest to Delegate Gleason that he is

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fighting the wrong war at the wrong time. If he wanted to

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fight the battle of the judicial branch article, I would

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suggest that he do that yesterday, and not today. I think

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he was strangely silent as I recall yesterday about the

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General Assembly's prerogatives in that area. I think he

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may have given himself away as far as that goes, when he

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mentioned the judicial branch in his. original speech.

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I think that there was no intent on the part of the

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committee to establish an agency. The committee was in