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the diffusion of knowledge''came the development of our stat
school laws, and system. Out of the Constitutional mandate
that sanguinary laws ought to be avoided has grown a good
deal of our penal code.
Some said this won't mean a thing to put it in thii
Constitution at the 'time it was debated. We have not
been overly concerned about including long passages that
assure the security of justice -- 10 pages, -- here we
are talking about one sentence, not ten pages. I am
against class or special Constitutional provisions for
lumbermen, oystermen, coal miners or even school teachers,
and there are some state Constitutions that have some
special provisions for them.
I do not believe they belong in the Constitution,
but the consumer involves all the people. This action would
tell the aged, the poor, the indigent, indeed all the
people that we care.
The other day when we included the Section on
Natural Resources, there were some who said this is not
Constitutional. It is hortature. But over 100 of us felt
that the natural resources were important because they