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details so specifically that you cannot rely on the good

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sense and the good judgment of those who might be holding

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public office.

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As I look at Article A3 — let me go back

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just a bit. I would urge, too, that in the drafting of

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any constitution, and I don't know of any constitutional

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convention that has ever done this, that somewhere along

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the line n good editor be brought into the act, someone

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who knows how to write, who does look at this from an

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editorial point of view, so that it is in a well-written

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manner. I think this is very critical because this does

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avoid some ambiguities and inconsistencies that frequent-

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ly creep into these documents.

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Looking at Article 43, I was quite interested

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in this. This presumably states the purpose, the reasons

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why we need a public school system, and I find one, to

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me, at least, one purpose of public education conspicu-

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ous by its absence and I would presume to suggest to

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this Committee that consideration be given to the idea

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of including in this section the idea that public

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education is important in the development of effective