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MR. ENEY: May we have your attention, please?
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This is a public meeting of the Conmittee on the Judiciary
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Esparbient of the Constitutional Convention Commission.
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The Chairman is Mr . Ridgely Melvin. I will turn the cieet-
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ing over to him in a very few moments. I want to make
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just a few preliminary comments.
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All of you are invited to this meeting for the
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purpose of considering and discussing with us the Second
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Report, tentative draft of the Second Report of this
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Commitee, which is going to be presented to the full
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Commission in the very near future.
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The Report comprises, as you know, a tentative
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draft of most of what ultimately will be the Judiciary
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Article of the Constitution.
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I want to call to your attention several basic
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precepts that the Commission has been endeavoring to
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follow in the drafting of all portions of the Constitution
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and in its decisions as to what to omit and what to in-
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clude.
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The principal guideline, I suppose, is that we
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are boxing to make the draft of the Constitution a very
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