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now facing us, and in which we are now involved. This
second industrial revolution is a revolution in which
the machines are replacing men, and it is of gret
concern to our national economy and to the economies in
our State.
The warning of the economies, the warnings
that we see everywhere in our State in the conditions of
the people who are being displaced from employment by
machines cannot be ignored as we sit in this Constitutional
Convention.
There has been a lot of talk about natural
rights as the basis of our Constitution's Bill of Rights
based on John Locke ' s theory of natural rights. The
United Nations changed the name a little bit, the
appellation, and called it "human rights", and certainly
as we sit here today one of the natural rights and one
of the human rights of any human being born into the
society of our State is the right to have a job, the
right to have meaningful employment, if he is able
bodied and wants to work, but because machines are
displacing men, we have an entirely new problem in