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tory by taking away all jurisdiction that they shall

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desire?

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KR. MART1NEAU: You can. That is simplifica-

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tion to the extreme. We don't agree with that.

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JUDGE CLAPP: The purpose of the Constitution

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is to protect the extremes.

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MR. MARTINEAU: You have to permit some

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flexibility. We don't believe we can sit down here and

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write into the Constitution ail of those cases where you

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may want the jurisdiction to be transferred from one-

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court to another and permit that and prohibit everything

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else. We don't believe that we are foresighted enough to

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be able to predict how the jurisdiction between the

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various courts ought to be allocated.

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KR. ENEY: It has its power under the present

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Constitution, the jurisdiction of all the courts is

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subject to change by the Legislature with very few excep-

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tions .

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JUDGE CARTER: Isn't it a fact of life that the

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Orphans' Court, the philosophy, leaving too much to the

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Legislature, the Orphans' Court will be abolished by the