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and you can't decide that until you know what the

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specific provisions are.

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The mere fact that they are not legally

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enforceable, I don't regard as an a priori bar. I think

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that the drafting problem is so tied up with the philo-

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sophical problem, that you can't decide one without

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deciding the other at the same time.

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MRS. FREEDLANDER: We have had things which

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were legally enforceable, which were supposedly not en-

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forceable vis-a-vis equal opportunities. It was not

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enforceable, but the people decided to enforce it. So,

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you can turn it around and say this is legally enforce-

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able and the people will say they don't want it.

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MR. SYKES: You can put the law so far ahead

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of the community that you get into the same problem, only

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a worse problem than you do if you put pious aspirations

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far ahead of the community, because the problem is worse,

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because to see a law meant to be enforced and not being

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actually enforced is worse, in my opinion, for the body

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politic than to see something not enforced which people

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can shrug their shoulders when they see it and say, well,



 

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