to say -that every inember of this committee recognized the
colorblind principle, fully and completely, and felt that
if they could find language which would state adequately
and correctly the principle of colorblindness, in this
Constitution, that they would do a great service to the
state.
We sought, in meeting after meet.ing -to arrive
at adequate language which would express the colorblind
principle.
We considered the language of the draft Consti-
tution prepared by the Commission. That language was
very similar to that proposed by the minority report. It
went a little bit further. It talked about the state, its
political subdivisions, and then it talke-d about no dis-
crimination by governmental action.
However, a majority of the committee felt the
language, governmental action, was uncertain and that
it didn't do anything different from what the case law of
the 14th Amendment did.
I think I should say also that nearly half
the committee felt that the problem of discrimination was