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I would urge you to vote against the amendment

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and leave the thing the way it was before.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Pullen, will you wait

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just a moment?

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I think perhaps Delegate Gallagher, out of a

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sense of delicacy maybe, has refrained from advising you

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that the suggested language was suggested by the Chair.

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The question was raised by Delegate Chabot some

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days ago. The history concerning this section is indeed

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very complicated, as many of you have already been told.

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I don't know that anybody could, from memory today tell

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you precisely the history of the old dispute.

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The Chair was concerned about the point that

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Delegate Chabot made, which was, although a finely-drawn

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point, one which perhaps could cause difficulty.

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The problem arises not with the difficulty and

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not with the language of the 1867 Constitution, but with

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using the language of the 1867 Constitution in the 1968

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Constitution. When that language included the word

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"hereafter", the "hereafter" would seem to refer, if it is

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included without further language, to after 1968. That