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DELEGATE CARDIN: Do you intend
any further possible transitional legisla-
tion to accompany this?
DELEGATE KEY: No. The purpose of
this article is to say to the legislature that
we want it to act.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any further ques-
tions?
Delegate Lloyd Taylor.
DELEGATE L. TAYLOR: Delegate
Key, in the State of New York when they
discussed this particular subject they intro-
duced the Consumer Protection Bill of
Rights.
Would you say that the attempt by this
particular constitutional poll is to protect
the right of the individual in terms of his
money?
In other words, when he buys anything
on the market, he should have the right of
protection from the State in protecting
himself from fraud and so forth. You say
this is the intention of the Committee
Recommendation ?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: Well, the intention
of the Committee is to protect the citizen.
Now, whether it is a right or not, as long
as it is done, we want it in the constitution,
you know. Whether it belongs in as a right
or as a general provision, we need to start.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Taylor.
DELEGATE L. TAYLOR: Would you
say this is a right, the states have a re-
sponsibility within their police power to
give this protection to the citizen?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Key.
DELEGATE KEY: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any further ques-
tions of the Committee?
Delegate Beatrice Miller.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: Mr. Chair-
man, I would like to make a point of par-
liamentary inquiry, if I might.
THE CHAIRMAN: State your inquiry.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: For four and
a half or five days we have sat here and
discussed legal justice and the attention of
the Convention was given to that subject.
To some of us, economic justice happens to
be just as important. If the hour is so late
and the delegates are so tired that we can-
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not give proper consideration to this ar-
ticle, we should delay it until Monday
morning and consider it afresh.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair observes
there have been as many delegates present
during this discussion as there have been
during the day. At the time of the presen-
tation, every delegate was present in his
seat. We have to move on and I think we
should bring this matter to conclusion one
way or another.
Delegate Koger.
DELEGATE KOGER: I would like to
rise to point of personal privilege.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the privilege.
DELEGATE KOGER: To me, Mr. Chair-
man, this is one of the most important sub-
jects to come before this Convention. Now,
I came here, I listened and tried to give all
I could to the judiciary aspects of the
Convention.
Now this deals with the people, the little
people that I am trying to represent, and
I think you should give this thing proper
attention; I think in the first place, we are
staging it incorrectly.
Ordinarily I have to agree with you in
every step, but I do not agree with you
right now. First of all, you have a lame
Committee. You do not have the Committee
chaired properly —
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koger, I
think the presentation by Delegate Key has
been just as forceful and complete as it
could possibly have been by anyone else on
the Committee.
DELEGATE KOGER: I did not mean it
that way. I think they have done most ably.
But what I am trying to say is that this
should come up at a better time and not
just before Thanksgiving day, and most of
us want to get to our homes. We do not
have the proper setting for something as
important as the rights of the consumer,
the protection of the people against harm-
ful business practices. That is most im-
portant to me.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair believes
the matter could be disposed of this after-
noon just as well as it could be Monday
morning, but in view of the fact that
there are delegates that feel very strongly
that a continuation of the consideration of
this matter this afternoon would not be
just to them, the Chair w,ould recognize
Delegate Powers to move that the Com-
mittee of the Whole rise, and we will move
ahead with this at the next sitting.
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