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and regulations that they may pass and for the Secretary
of State to make these available for sale to the general
public.
However, I defy any person in this room to
locate all the regulations and rules and statutes which
govern any particular legal activity in this case. It
simply cannot be done.
I am not advocating that this Constitution attempt
to lay down a system of compilation. I am bringing to the
attention of this body, that it has to be mandated to be
done and it has to be mandated with teeth in it. We will
have 197 bodies cranking out laws, and this is what the
proposal said, that all these activities, and there are
cited statutes, resolutions, rules, regulations, ordinances,
proclamations and other actions having the force of law.
These are being compiled in a compilation that can be under-
stood.
The Federal Government went through this in 1938
and came out with what is known as the Federal Register, or
the CFR. By consulting the CFR it is possible to ascertain
what the Federal Government by its many, many law-making