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he is learned in this subject. You see the pros and cons
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of our whole debate between teaching documents versus
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legal documents or aspirations versus legal restraints,
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and you say you know the pros and cons and yet you have
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no real firm opinion? Do you mean for the Council or
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do you have an opinion yourself? We would be very
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interested in hearing it.
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MR. SYKES: I will be glad to tell you what
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my views are on this question. The real problem doesn't
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come until you start to try to draft something that is
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to be generally acceptable. If you pitch something too
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far ahead of the great bulk of the people in the State,
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you may wind up simply having the Constitution rejected
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or having important forms hung up on something that
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arouses philosophic differences.
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There is always a danger, if you put too many
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general principles in a constitution that are not enforce
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able, that if the public is unable to live up to this —
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and you see the Constitution daily flouted -- then you
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have held the law up to scorn by trying to do too much.
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On the other hand, there is no doubt an
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