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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Boyer.
DELEGATE BOYER: I again would re-
spectfully suggest to the Convention to
reject amendment C. It seems a little in-
consistent that, on its one hand, the pro-
posers of amendment B wanted the gov-
ernor to call it, now they want to take
away his right to have a veto over it if it
is passed by law.
There are only two ways the General
Assembly could accomplish this. One, by
law or perhaps by resolution. A resolution
probably could not be vetoed. A law could.
I think it would be inconsistent for the
posture of the sponsors to suggest in
Amendment B that the governor should
have the right in conjunction with the
General Assembly to call it and in Amend-
ment C they would not like to have the
governor have the right to veto the Gen-
eral Assembly's action. I respectfully sug-
gest Amendment C be rejected.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any further
discussion ?
(There was no response.)
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
The Clerk will ring the quorum bell. The
question arises on adoption of Amendment
No. 2 to Committee Recommendation GP-8.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 2 A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote.
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 27 votes in the affirmative
and 86 in the negative, the motion is lost.
T.he amendment is rejected.
The next amendment is D. It will be
Amendment No. 3.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 30
to Committee Recommendation GP-8, by
Delegates Needle, Hardwicke and Sollins:
On page 1 in line 9 after the period add
this new sentence: "If a petition, signed
by a number of qualified voters of the
state equal to ten per cent of the total
number of votes cast for governor in the
most recent gubernatorial election, pro-
vided that not more than one-fourth of sich
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number shall be voters in any one county,
is filed with the office of governor to refer
to the voters the question of calling a con-
stitutional convention, the question shall be
submitted to a vote at the next general
election."
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
submitted by Delegate Needle, seconded by
Delegates Hardwicke and Sollins. Please
correct the typographical error in line 5,
Second word is "cast" instead of "case".
The Chair recognizes Delegate Needle.
DELEGATE NEEDLE: Mr. Chairman, I
ask unanimous consent to make one other
typographical correction. On line 7 change
the word "sich," or rather the word "such"
should be "the total".
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any objection
to making the modification in line 7 by
striking the word "such" and inserting the
words "the total"?
The Chair hears none. The modification
will be made.
Delegate Needle.
DELEGATE NEEDLE: I would also like
to say at the outset for the benefit of the
Committee on Style in line 3 the words
"qualified voters" could be changed to
"registered voters" consistent with what-
ever position they take elsewhere in the
constitution as Delegate Winslow indicated
previously.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well.
DELEGATE NEEDLE: This is the ini-
tiative procedure for calling of a constitu-
tional convention. As I stated, I think it
is now all the more important that you
support this amendment having rejected
the possibility of initiative, submitting
amendments to the constitution to the
people.
Remember that this only requires that
the question of calling a constitutional con-
vention be placed on the ballot so that the
people can determine whether or not they
want to call one. Then a convention would
have to recommend any changes in the
constitution to the people and it would
come before the people at an election for
their ratification.
"By petition therefor" does not mean by
any stretch of the imagination that there
would be any changes in our basic law.
However, I think the people by the initia-
tive procedure should have the right to call
a constitutional convention. If they had that
right, surely we would have had a conven-
tion long before now.
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