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during the time when a lot of demonstrations were going on,

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and you couldn't enter a hotel or motel or restaurant;

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and it is just historical that the Constitution is being

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written during this time when it is possible for the

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world to see that democracy does work and can work. And

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when each delegate goes back to his home, I hope he will

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remember this as a prime example that we can get

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along together; that nobody -- I don't think any American

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citizen wants anything but first-class citizenship, and

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just to be treated as an ordinary person, and I think

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that was done here. ( Applause.)

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gallagher.

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. President and ladies

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and gentlemen: I don't think that anything has been said

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during the course of the resolutions about the gratitude

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which this Convention owes to the members of the original

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Constitutional Convention Commission, of which you were

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the Chairman, and I think it would be appropriate at this

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time to record for the transcript of these proceedings our

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gratitude to the Commission for the two years of

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work which it did, and for the opportunity to have as our