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1	I would let the people fill the vacancy.
2	DELEGATE K1RCHER: Any regard to party lines?
3	DELEGATE HARDWICKE: The vacancies would be
4	filled from the State Central Committee of the party in
5	which the vacancy occurred.
6	THE CHAIRMAN: Is there anyone else who feels
7	that the clergy should not be permitted to hold office
8	in the legislature? I gather we have a consensus here.
9	DELEGATE EMANUEL: What is the present pro-
10	vision of the Constitution?
11	THE CHAIRMAN: They may not hold office. It's
12	a rather interesting historical background.
13	MR. CLAGETT: Dr. Bard, my feeling is no
14	clergy.
15	DELEGATE KIRCHER: No clergy?
16	MR. CLAGETT: No clergy.
17	SENTATOR HUGHES: There must be a reason for
18	it.
19	MR. CLAGETT: If I were running against a
20	clergyman, I could never call him all the names I'd want
21	to call him.