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care to be heard?
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MRS. MACIE YOLKER: No. I'm just here for
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the Women's Democratic League.
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THE CHAIRMAN: May we have your name, please?
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MRS. YOLKER: Mrs. Macie Yolker, 1810 Bonnie
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View Lane, Elkridge, Maryland.
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THE CHAIRMAN: All right, Mr. Burgess?
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MR. LIONEL BURGESS: Mr. Chairman, ladies and
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gentlemen, I did not get, and I'm sure it was sent to
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me, this general outline, but I proceeded on the basis
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that we are going to talk about equal representation
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this morning. Anyway, I found out my first step in this
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also was the preparation for what is in this document.
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It has to do with Articles 1, 4, 6 and 7, and while I
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have not had the opportunity to read these quite as
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carefully as I would like to, I have read them many
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times, as all of us have and, in years gone by, we paid
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more attention to them because we had to.
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It certainly sets the stage of the relation-
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ship between suffrage and, of course, the ruling body,
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I guess you might say the plenary powers of the
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