Convention, accompanied by their -teachers.
I might also say that Chaptico is one of the
finest and most modernized schools in the State.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delighted to have them. (Applause.
Delegate Beachley.
DELEGATE BEACHLEY: Mr. President, I would
like to speak for the preamble that was prepared by the
Committee on Personal Rights and Preamble. I would like
to give you a definition that has been given for a preamble,
but I would like you to keep in. mind that no matter what you
say in the preamble, it really has no legal force.
A premable is merely an intruction or it is a
preface to the start of the document stating the reasons
or intent of what is being considered.
We went back to some of the books on constitutional
law and found a statement that had been made by Justice
Joseph Story who was one of the United States Supreme
Court Justices in the Marshall era. It is hard to come
by definitions really for preambles, but this is what
he gives: "A preamble is the key to open the mind of
the makers as to the mischiefs which are to be remedied