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this area.
This has been 'in the past a most misused
procedure. It has not in the past constitutionally applied
to equity cases. I think it very clear that our Legislature
and our Court of Appeals can certainly handle this area
and do it well and wisely as time goes by, but to write
into the Constitution an absolute where an absolute is
most unwise seems to me very lamentable, especially in the
larger counties. This right has been so much abused in
the past that it should not be in the Constitution but
left to better sources to be flexible and to be well done.
I urge your support of this amendment.
DELEGATE CLARK: Delegate Weidemeyer.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. President and Members
of the Committee, I urge that the amendment be rejected.
For a long time it has been historic that our people who
had to go into court on a law case would know, they knew
that they had the Constitutional right to remove it from a
court in an area where they felt they could not have a
fair and impartial trial and if it is any kind of right, if
i it is a right that we do not want to abandon, then we ought