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but I thought that for the purpose, for enlightenment of

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the layman, Mr. Gallagher might give us a dissertation

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on the natural law.

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THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further disserta-

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tion?

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Delegate Weidemeyer.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. President, it seems

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to me that if we could divide this amendment into the two

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parts, the first part would strike out language, "that are

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now or may hereafter be", and I may ,be wrong but I believe

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we revert then to our old original language.

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THE PRESIDENT: That would not be true. The

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word "hereafter" is in the 1867 Constitution.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: If we would strike out

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everything and leave it exactly as it were in the 1867

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Constitution, amended in 1891, it would seem to me that

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a fair constitional construction would be that having

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continued the old language in its entirety we have meant

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to continue rather than add something new and so I think

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that would be the constitutional construction, and in any

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event this last section which says "except to the extent"