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DELEGATE SYBERT: I would like to direct a
question to the sponsor of the amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the question.
DELEGATE SYBERT: I would like to ask Delegate
Hardwicke whether he purposely left out the provision, or
some provision showing recognition that all political power
originates in the people?
Wouldn't it be better to have such a provision
in the preamble, one of our most basic ideas in this
country?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hardwicke.
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Mr. Chairman, I am very
glad that Delegate Sybert raised the point. I think that
we can deal with this expression which comes from the
present Constitution, I believe it is Article I at the
present time.
I would prefer, I believe, to include it as one
of the specific rights or references in the Constitution,
as it is in the present Constitution, rather than part of
the preamble. However, if the language I suggested
could be amended in a passive way to permit that expression,