11,777

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the people in the month of May, and I am not exaggerating

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when I tell you that the view that will be expressed by

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the people is not the view of these people who will sign

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something that is lying before them without having heard

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or engaged in any debate.

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I told you of what happened in Rhode Island.

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In Rhode Island they took their ban out of the Constitution

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and it was to be submitted to the people on November 7th,

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and Governor Chaffee got their Constitutional Convention

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to withdraw it from the vote of the people because of two

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things in it that made it so bad that it would be

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overwhelmingly defeated. One dealt with the subject of wire

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tapping, and the other was that they removed the ban on

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lotteries, and he said "It is worse than any Constitution

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we have. We are not going to submit it", and all of the

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work up to that point went for naught. They withdrew it.

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What did the leading newspaper up there say?

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The proposed Constitution eliminates the existing ban on

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the running of state lotteries, and if that draft is

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approved every voter in Rhode Island can expect to see

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a dozen different bills before the legislature to put the