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and I am real glad. (Laughter).
THE CHAIRMAN: Now we have a period of limited
but uncontrolled debate. Does anybody desire to speak in
favor of the amendment?
Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: Mr. President, as I recall
history when this nation was founded nearly two centuries
ago there were two schools of thought, one espoused by
Hamilton and the other by Jefferson.
Hamilton believed in an aristocracy of wealth,
far removed from the people; and Jefferson believed in a
democracy by men close to the people. Hamilton, in one
of his writings said that the people are great beasts and
not to be trusted, while Jefferson believed that no nation
was fit to live in which the average man could not parti-
' cipate in.
I say to this Convention that the issues here
i today are as clear and fundamental as they were nearly two
centuries ago when this nation was formed. When my good
friend Judge Adkins presented the majority report of the
Executive Branch Committee last night, or the night before