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states in connection with constitutional conventions or
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constitutional revisions with respect to their judi-
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ciary articles.
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MR. WINTERS: Well, prior to joining the
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American Judicature Society, I lived in the State of
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Missouri where I was originally admitted to the bar and
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that was the very time that Missouri was going through
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its studies on selection of judges which resulted in
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the adoption at that very time of what has become to
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be known as the Missouri Plan, actually a proposal which
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had been devised in advance by the American Judicature
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Society. Since then, there have been major constitution-
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al revisions. There. have been judicial articles in New
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Jersey, Illinois and Puerto Rico. I would not under-
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take to name all of them, California; and the American
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Judicature Society has been involved in greater or
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lesser extent, in all of these. I would not say, of
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course, we had a controlling part or even a leading
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part, but we have been active in all of those, in
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particular the, judicial aspects of them.
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MR. MARTINEAU: Well, have you through your
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