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would hate to see the time come when future office holders

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of this state are asked before they take the oath, are

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you going to take the oath with reference to the Deity

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in it or out of it and have newspaper stories say that

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Governor Elect so and so will take the oath without

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reference to God, or that the Governor so and so will take

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it with God in it.

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I don't think this is a matter that we ought

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to put in the Constitution. I respectfully urge you to

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support the amendment, and leave the oath in essentially

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the form it is in the present Constitution.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Weidemeyer.

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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. President, I hope

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this amendment is defeated. The only reason given for it

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is that somebody somewhere has expressed some doubt.

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I have no doubt of a Supreme Being and I have

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no doubt of the fact that I should have this in here, and

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if it is going to be taken out, I suggest that we not do

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it at this late hour, but have some judge in the future

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who doesn't want to believe in God and wants to spring

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him from this place in the Constitution. Let him do it.