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assessing of the situation, you've got to ask yourself,
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is the risk of getting something which is one of the less
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desirable of those alternatives, is the risk of your own
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misjudgment so great that it would be better as a matter
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of caution to give up the quest, or do you have sufficient
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confidence in the ability of your own success in judging
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what is good for the people and the temper of the people
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in their willingness to accept such good that you think
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it's worth risking the effort.
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That is as far as I can go without sweating
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out the actual language.
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MR. GENTRY: If you could reach this alterna-
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tive b that you mentioned, would it be good to have?
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MR. SYKES: I don't know, until you try. You've
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got to weigh — you say if, and that assumes the point,
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of course, it would be good to have. If you could reach
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an agreement that you would be sure would not hang up the
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Constitution and would express a really general consensus
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and wouldn1 t be so innocuous because it is a general
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consensus, it would be just the right amount ahead, and
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if you could all agree on what is ahead and what is
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