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Constitution which I hope we all will do and perhaps even

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in the next few months the Legislature will see fit to do

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that which we have not seen fit to write in the basic

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words of the Constitution itself.

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Thank you.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mitchell.

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DELEGATE MITCHELL: Mr. President and Fellow

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Delegates, I rise to pay tribute to the principles upon

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which the Convention was founded and to the quality and

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character of the delegates who were elected from across the

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State to this Convention which vindicated the kind of

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elections which were held. We were supposed to be elected

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on a non-partisan basis with the interest of welding here

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the kind of principles, basic principles, into a new

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Constitution which would move this State forward.

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I have turned the half century, so I have lived

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a little longer. I am an old warrior against injustice,

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but what has sustained me in my long struggle as a human

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being for justice has been my faith in the Constitution and

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the kind of government that we have in this country.

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Sometimes our young people will become very impatient, but