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constitution, the way we have it today, at least, if you

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go by a model type constitution.

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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't think it is trespassing

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upon the responsibility of this Committee to say now that

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I think the general thinking of all of the members of the

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Committee is that much of that material is going to be

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eliminated and what we are hunting for -- well, wo want to

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be certain that we have considered all of the various

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aspects as we undertake to do just that, apply the knife.

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DR. BURDETT: It is going to be eliminated from

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the Constitution, but not repealed.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Exactly, and there, of course,

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we hope, too, by the way in which we rewrite the Consti-

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tution and accomplish the Constitution and rephrasing the

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actual responsibility and providing for the exercise of

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function, that better legislation can come out in improve-

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ment, as wall as what is existent. There are many good

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laws that really have long since served their functions

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and ought to bo taken out of the statute books somewhere.

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Well, 1 think vs are satisfied that that is an

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important question to be researched and we ought to have