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government, et cetera. All right.
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MR. BURGESS: And for this purpose, of course,
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elections are to be free and frequent, and every white
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male citizen -- of course, we would not want to continue
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the white male.
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THE CHAIRMAN: You don't want to. Thank you.
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MR. BURGESS: I believe that has already been
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taken care of, in 1956. So, I don't know why they didn't
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change it in my copy, or maybe I don't have an up-to-date
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copy.
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THE CHAIRMAN: One time they had a problem
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where slavery was abolished, and I was rather sensitive
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at the full Commission hearing that someone would vote
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against continuing the abolishment of slavery, but we
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made it.
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MR. BURGESS: I have a memo about that, too.
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I would also call to your attention that in the Consti-
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tution of 1864, that this was included and deleted, of
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course, in 1867, as Article 1, that we hold it to be
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self-evident that all men are created equally free, that
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they are endowed by their Creator with certain
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