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the needed protection of the individual is furnished
by the federal constitution and need not be reaffirmed in
a state constitution. From this I dissent. It seems to
me that it is essential that the document which creates
and defines and provides the power of our state and local
governments should also define and state with clarity and
directness and emphasis those individual rights and
liberties which those governments cannot and shall not trans-
gress.
Now, how can we achieve these lofty objectives?
Certainly they cannot be realized merely by their enuncia-
tion. The inspired speech, the neatly turned phrase, the
eloquence of an earlier Webster or Clay or a modern-day
Churchill, the profundity of a Burke, or even the inspired
genius of a Madison, a Hamilton, or a Jefferson alone will
not achieve these objectives or write a constitution
for this Convention. The task can be performed, the de-
sired result can be achieved only by the unremitting,
grinding, grueling, exacting, time-consuming toil of each
and every one of the 142 Delegates to this Convention.
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