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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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look ahead, as you suggest, and this is a different point
which we are straddling. If you look ahead, it will be
more and more of a bureaucratic society, where more and

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more decision making will be made by boards, as they are

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today, various regulatory commissions and boards that

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make decisions.

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Now, the last Constitution has a provision

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that protects the citizens on the power of investigatory

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commi ssions of the executive and legislative branch,

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which protects the people, which they don't currently

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have .

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MR. SYKES: Are you sure of it?

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MRS. FREEDLANDER: In most state constitutions

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aside from Alaska. For instance, Alaska states the right

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of all persons to fair and just treatment in the course

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of legislative investigation shall not infringed upon.

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This is one of the bill of rights put out by the Municip.

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League. Is this the kind of provision you think we should

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consider in looking ahead?

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MR. SYKES: I think the due process clause

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and the general attitude of the courts toward administrative



 

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