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THE PRESIDENT: I must confess that I don't

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follow what is troubling you, Delegate Burgess. The

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sentence as you, or the clause of the sentence as you would

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modify it would read "subject to reasonable limitations

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and restrictions, the General Assembly may prescribe by

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law, and the way it is now is subject to any reasonable

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limitations and restrictions that the General Assembly

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may prescribe by law."

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It seems to the Chair grammatically the way

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it is is much to be preferred and I can't understand the

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difference in substance or why you are concerned about the

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difference in substance, any difference.

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DELEGATE BURGESSj Mr. President, the problem

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that has been encountered here, quite frankly I can read

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it two ways, as I am sure the Chair can, but the problem

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is that there is at least in the mind of some of the

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delegates, a suggestion, the word "any" has a connotation

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which would tend to possibly broaden interpretation of

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this section beyond what was intended by the Committee of

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the Whole.

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THE PRESIDENT: How can it broaden? This is