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(This section is quoted in the minority report.)"
"The Committee's principal reason for opposing
such a provision is that it would introduce into the
declaration of rights terms which are indefinite in
meaning and indeterminate in scope from a legal standpoint.
"The committee respectfully suggests that the
quoted provision amounts to a comprehensive mandate direc-
ted to private actions and relationships as well as to
acts of the government vis-a-vis individual citizens.
As such, the committee believes it sweeps far beyond
the principle of equal protection in the 14th Amendment,
has no identifiable limits, and carries a potential impact
which is impossible for any member of the Commission or
Convention to foresee or evaluate."
Now advancing to the point of our committee
meeting of Personal Rights and the Preamble -- one of our
witnesses was Joseph Rauh. In answer to a question by me
asking for an interpretation of State Action, he said:
"I think today's Draft would, by the present Supreme
Court, be interpreted to include licensees to give an
example. Whether it would go so far as including the