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which will then adopt. Our committees, too, serve a

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little different function than your committees because

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while ultimately they will adopt specific language and

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submit it to the full Commission, at the moment they are

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gatherers of facts and views to present to the full

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Commission and to embody hopefully in a series of mono-

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graphs that will preserve for the use of the public and

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the use of the Constitutional Convention ultimately the

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views of all groups that are interested in the various

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aspects of the Constitution.

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So that we do not always have a court reporter

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present at these sessions, simply because our budget does

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not permit it. We regard this session with you as im-

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portant enough to go to the expense of having a court

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reporter, so that we can see that every member of the

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Commission has a written record of what he has said

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tonight for study and consideration. In addition to

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that, of course, the members of the Committee who are

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here tonight will have the opportunity to exchange views

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with you, but more importantly, and this is the real

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purpose of it, is to elicit your views on some of the