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within certain limits just as this says, shall prescribe
within certain limits.
Mr. Chairman, we do not contemplate that
there would be necessarily one delegate per county. We
realize that the population is going to change, but I say
to you sir that the more delegates there are, the shorter
distance some of our people are going to have to travel.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any other delegates desir-
ing to speak in favor of the amendment?
Delegate Weidemeyer?
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. President, Members
of this Convention, in the newspapers this morning we
read that New York State has spent $10 million and six months
time only to have a constitution draft fail when it went
before the voters.
The reason that draft failed is for two reasons:
It either failed to meet the needs of the people, or it
did not meet the whimsies of the people.
When I hear delegates talk about living up to
our responsibility, I think our responsibility here
today is to draft a constitution under which the people |
