[News Script: The Amendments (Part Four)] Page: 3 of 6
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AMENDMENTS #3
The Texas News continues a series of capsule reports
on the nine amendments to the State Constitution
which come up for a vote August 5th. One of them --
Amendment 1 -- would do away with what are called
"obsolete, superfluous and unnecessary sections of the
Constitution." In all, it would get rid of 52 parts
of that lengthy document. There's a sentence in the
amendment which says that repeal of these sections
shall not make any changes in the substance of the
present constitution. So, presumably, if it turned
out later that one of the provisions was actually
needed, its repeal could be tossed out. The amendment
is generally regarded as a way of trying to "clean up"
a cluttered constitution. Another one -- Amendment
3 -- would give pay raises to the members of the
legislature plus the Lt. Governor and the House
Speaker. It provides that those last two men can't
make more than half of whatever the governor is
making, and that legislators can't make more than what
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: The Amendments (Part Four)], script, July 31, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1144980/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.