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The Clerk will ring the quorum bell,please.
Will you call' on someone else. Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: I yield four minutes to
Delegate Wagandt.
DELEGATE WAGANDT: Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wagandt.
DELEGATE WAGANDT: Mr. Chairman, in R&P-1
commentary the majority's position seems to suggest that
the Supreme Court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment
can play the major roll in resolving the problems of
discrimination.
True, the Court has been expanding the view of
civil and political rights, but I do raise this question:
How do we know what position the court will take in the
future decades under the equal protection clause of the
14th Amendment?
How can we be sure that the court will continue
its local interpretation?
I remind you that there was a 14th Amendment
when the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of
1875. There was a 14th Amendment when the Supreme Court