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You do not, therefore, have available now an

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alternate choice in most instances of either submitting an

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amendment or asking for a division. If you want the

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question raised, it would have to be by amendment. You

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cannot wait until the article is actually on final vote

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and then ask for revision. The time for amendment will

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have expired.

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As the Chair indicated several days ago, when

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we say that the article is open for amendment, we do not

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mean that it is open for any and all amendments of any

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kind. It would not be possible, for instance, to submit

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an amendment to add a new section or even to add an

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entirely new idea in an existing section because the

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Convention rules provide that all proposals, and "proposal"

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means anything to be included in the Constitution, must

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be first submitted in the form of a proposal and then be

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referred to a committee and then have the usual treatment

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of first, second, and third readings for consideration of

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the Committee of the Whole and so forth, so that the only

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amendments which are proper are amendments which are

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germane. This is, again, a question in the first instance