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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Mr. President and ladies

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and gentlemen, all of the reasons that have been advanced

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for keeping this plank in this Constitution it seems to me

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are highly fallacious. First of all it is said that lotteries

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are evil. All right, maybe they are. Then why not collect

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all of the things that we think are evil and put a plank in

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the Constitution about them and forbid them. Why pick out

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this particular item?

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How much time did we have in our committees to

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demonstrate whether it was evil or not? How much do we know)

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and how much has been provided for us individually to show

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us?

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Secondly, the Legislature would be under pressure).

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All right, let us pick out all of the things that would put

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the Legislature under pressure and forbid those in the

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Constitution.

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I submit that we have not attempted in any area

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to pick out the evils. We have not tried to protect the

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Legislature from pressure. This is an exceptional thing

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that is asked of us here, and there is no reason advanced for

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the exception.