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Constitution that the General Assembly shall have

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concurrent power. It says that the General Assembly can

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pass a law. Maybe it comes to the same thing, but it

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is certainly not a constitutional power. I wonder if the

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effect of the amendment is not to remove the so-called

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concurrent rule-making power from its constitutional

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status?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Marion.

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DELEGATE MARION: Delegate Burdette, the

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amendment is certainly not designed to have that effect.

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The sentence has posed problems before.

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This language was drafted by Mr. Adkins ,

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the staff advisor for the Judicial Branch Committee. It

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is entirelv possible that it does not say as well as

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possible what we intend, but the intention is to make no

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substantive change, but to clarify the lanauage of the

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second sentence of this section, and to avoid the difficulty

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posed by the words "provide" and "prescribe", neither

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one of which seems to fit very aptly when this sentence

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is read.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Burdette.