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5,01 and you will note it does not provide for the legis-
lature to create any other courts,any other special
courts we subait by law,
What the minority suggests, I want to be per-
fectly frank in indicating to you that I do not consider
this a guts issue, the minority simply feels that this
body ought to deliberate and consider whether or not it
wants to permit the legislature to provide any other courts
that would not be inconsistent with the unified judicial
court system.
As a matter of fact, we had considered wording
our amendment so that the legislature could provide for
"other courts not inconsistent with the unified judicial
court system", but we decided that that perhaps was not
very good constitutional draftsmanship and we abandoned it*
So our amendment in effect will say that the
word "exclusively" should be deleted from Section 5.01
and we should add to that section "and other courts that
may be provided by law."
As indicated in the minority report, the reason
for this is to permit the legislature to create whatever