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in the material you presented and I wanted to particular-

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ly refer to it here. Although a portion of this article

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has been partially, at least, invalidated by a recent

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decision of the Supreme Court, I urge the retention of

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this article with the least possible change and that the

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phrase: "Nor ought any person to be compelled to frequent

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or maintain, or contribute, unless on contract, to main-

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tain, any place of worship, or any ministry," be retained

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without change.

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You were discussing this a while ago and it

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seems to me again, let me urge this, as others here have,

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you do not attempt to write a Constitution in specific

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detail. As Mr. Sartorius said, if you do, we're going

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to be faced with constitutional amendments at every

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whipstitch, if I may use that word. But even in the

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field of education, since our whole Declaration of Rights

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is based on English law, I think it can be argued, when

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it says any person ought to be free to administer -- in

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England, it's the ministry of education, and I wonder if

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this doesn't have significance to the very things you

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have been talking about here before. I am not a