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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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you have to be practical. First, when you are writing a

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constitution, I believe that any constitution should be

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written as briefly as possible. I think the less you put

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into it, the better document you are going to have. By

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that I mean, I don't think you go into all these areas

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and write everything into a constitution because then

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you are going to have nothing but trouble, and we have

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seen it time and time again. That is why we have had to

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amend the Constitution so many times, because we write

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constitutional amendments down there and after they are

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adopted, then we find out we either left something out

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or should put something in. So, again we go and adopt

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another constitutional amendment to make up for the

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mistakes.

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I think the less you do by constitution and

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the more you do by statute, the better off you are; but

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what I say is, to get practical, I think it is wonderful

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in theory to try to get everything that you can do to

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make it a better document, but I also think you have to

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look at the practical aspect of it; that you want the

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people to adopt a new constitution and in order to get



 

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