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to recommend its removal, what difference it might make
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on a practical basis, and I think we would very much
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appreciate, Dr. Zimmerman, if you would give us a down
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to earth explanation of it in practice.
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DR. DAVID W. ZIMMERMAN: Madam Chairlady,
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members of the Committee, you put me on as an expert and
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you almost disqualify me, because I am not an expert. I
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have been working in the State Department of Education
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since 1942, and spent quite a spell in working with
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finance.
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At the outset, I would like to say that I
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subscribe to the position of the Committee on keeping the
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Constitution brief, terse and to the point and not get-
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ting it fouled up with a lot of minutia which rightfully
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belongs in the law. I think constitutions are supposed
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to set the basic framework for the establishment of
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government, protection of rights and safeguards, and
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commit the other things to be in the statutes.
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Just a footnote to what Dr. Pullen was saying
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about the tendency toward one-man government. We have
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experienced this kind of problem through the years.
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