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Proceedings and Debates of the 1967 Constitutional Convention
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expression. That was all right. People should have
freedom of worship. That was all right. Government
could do something about those, but then he went too far.
He said, people should have freedom from want and freedom
from fear. I suggest to you if you look at this amendment
that is before us, when we say that the policy of the
state should be that all persons shall have economic
security in order that they may live in decency, dignity,
and health, I suggest to you that all the economic
security in the world will not assure that any person will
live in dignity, decency, and most of all, live in
good health. We can say about the same thing about the
injunction in there for opportunity of employment.
You will recall President Kennedy when he was
alive made a statement that we are always going to have
injustice with us. A lot of us sympathize with our
economically deprived, people who are suffering injustices,
but this is no place in the Constitution where we are
setting up powers by which government shall operate to
attempt to redress those imbalances in our society, if
there is any way those imbalances are redressed, they



 
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