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constitutional dimension.
If you base it upon succinctness -- I have heard mich
talk about things to be succinct; could anything be more
succinct than this provision? I think not. Would somethim
of this kind be enforceable if enacted by the legislature?
I certainly think it would.
Now, there are other precedents in this
constitution that we are drafting of a similar nature. I all
your attention, my fellow delegates, to what we have
already done with regard to the structure of county
government, where we say in Section 7.05, within one year
following the adoption of this constitution the General
Assembly shall provide by public general law a choice of
procedures by which an instrument of government of a
county may be proposed.
That is directed, and whether the legislature
does or not is open to perhaps some subsequent decisions.
The legislature may not be capable of drafting a model
county charter.
In our proposed article relating to suffrage,
we state the General Assembly shall make certain laws with