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State Legislature."
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DELEGATE flALLAGHER: You made your point.
DELEGATE JAMES: That was for emphasis.
Under the recommendations on page 12,-the first
point made is'
(1) The legislative article should express only
fundamental law and omit procedural details.
Since the Constitution is supposed to embody
a more basic and inferior presence, matters of less impor-
tance should be left to the discretion of the legislature
so that immediate problems can be handled within the frame-
work of the Constitution.
The last Constitution is very brief and conser-
vative in providing the legislative orocedural details.
Section 12 simply provides thatthe house shall adopt its
own rules of procedure, and it shall keep a journal. Sec-
' lion 13 sets up a verv breif article reaffirming the rule
that every bill shall relate to one subject, and that
sub-iect shall be described in its title.
inally, section 14 relates to the passage of
hills, sayincr that the legislature shall establish a