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but I see that it has been disseminated. Those articles
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were suggested to be deleted because they were not
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appropriate for a Declaration of Rights and that was
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the sole reason and, if they are needed, they would be
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appropriate in another section of the Constitution.
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MR. BURGESS: Well, I know that, for instance,
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you set specifically the date of the convening of the
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Legislature.
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THE CHAIRMAN: That shouldn't be in the Bill
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of Rights, should it?
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MR. BURGESS: I'm not too sure that that .
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should, but I'm not too sure that the affirmation of
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this kind of faith shouldn't be a part or maybe com-
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pressed, maybe condensed; but I'm not too sure that
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these beliefs that we all hold, that many of them should
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not be preserved in our bill of rights, and I'm not going
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to go through the rest of them, but I have this sort of
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feeling about most of them, particularly 28, 30, 31,
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32, about standing armies are dangerous.
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Now, I know we all agree we need a big stand-
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ing army, but when you come to the matter of Article 30,
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