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Show October 27, 1972 The UTAH INDEPENDENT . A S- -l V fj ' !: r A A A AA A A A Ar Page . TV he TV A: fln die pen diem 9 A-- 'ftNivf sT Ar Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth A A A AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A AAAAAArArAAAAAAAAAAAAArAAAAAAr PEOPLE AGAINST THE and the Utah Constitution Revision Commission is the body that has been appointed to Utah turned this down years ago overwhelmingly. The legislature has turned it down. A program like this, when its turned down one place is like a cat with nine lives it comes back through CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS get them passed. Mr. Rosenblatt was recently critical of the office of State Auditor. Mr. Sherman Preece, our present State another way. This piece of legislation is the one which opens the door once again to Metropolitan and Regional Merrill Nelson Candidate for State, Legislature, District 27 As a candidate for the House J. Bracken Lee Former Governor and Mayor When asked his opinion on the proposed Constitutional Amendments, former Governor of Utah and Mayor of Salt Lake City, J. Bracken Lee answered: I am opposed to them. 1 think that the people who have of Representatives from Utah Legislative District 27, I am opposed to all the Constitutional Amendments but, particularly No. 1 which would increase the powers of the Legislature. The legislature now has all the powers necessary to perform needed services. To expand it further would create a Government. It always makes me very apprehensive when I see lined up a whole host of organizations pushing any particular program. It shows that its an organized effort. It is not an effort of the people and all of these organizations that are involved in this have all been either educated, brainwashed, or whatever you want to call it, to roll up their sleeves and go to work on this. I can tell you again, people and immediately they start laying their plans to destroy our form of government and it has been done very cleverly in this country, step by step. Now, if committeemen, auditors, attorneys, board members, advisors, ad infinitum, can only incur additional expense to the legislative process and additional expense means additional taxes someone can show me that some Jody Elder would say, Lets consider changes. But, they have all proven, with very few exceptions, that they are detrimental to people and that they are and have been destroying our form of government. J. McKi nnon Smith Says Proposition 4 Leads to Metropolitan Government am the of the Citizens Committee for the Protection of Property Rights. I an You know, this piece of legislation is a back-doo- legislation. legislation Former Attorney General Former Utah Attorney General, Phil Hanson, voiced his opposition to Proposition 2 on the ground that it will violate a fundamental principle of democracy. I He said : object to it for a very fundamental reason; for a very fundamental principle called liberty. This country was founded on it. ' appointed by the Governor and he wants the State Auditor to be The Little Hoover appointed by the Legislature. Commission whose chairman This, I think, is wrong because the was Joseph Rosenblatt, was the power to appoint is the power to instigator of these Constitutional control and Im not in favor of Amendments in the state of Utah it. Appointed present Constitution conveniently r piece of This kind of will allow the legislature to let these people choose the kind of government they want in the counties and then they will be there pushing them to have certain kinds. The thing I would like to raise here is, there arc two reasons here, one which they tell us and one which they dont. The one which they dont tell us is this will open the door to Metropolitan Government. Now the people of the state of are not available. Therefore, it is impossible for the average voter to know what he is voting for since he does not have a previous copy of the Constitution to know what the impact of the changes will Amendment known as full be. Proposition 1. These proponents dont want the people to vote for their independent State Auditor Proposition 1 and their independent State The following are some of the Attorney General; they want these state officials appointed by more important changes with the Legislature. explanations as to what its effect For nearly eight years, and will be. The present Constitution particularly for' the past four will be printed first, if it applies, years, climaxing in the November followed by the proposed 1972 General Election, there has amendment. Article VI Section 22 . . . No been an underhanded scheme to deceive and brainwash Utah bill or Joint Resolution shall be voters into passing a passed, except with the assent of constitutional amendment which the majority of all the members could take away forever, the elected to each house of the peoples right to vote for their Legislature, and after it has been State Auditor and Attorney read three times. The vote upon General. It is a very simple trick. the final passage of all bills shall If Proposition 1 passes t be duties be by yeas and nays and no law and responsibilities of the auditor shall be revised or amended by and the lawyer are reassigned to reference to its title only; but the Legislature and the the act as revised, or section as and Legislative Appropriations amended, shall be . Committee will not, and should published atdengtb The Utah Constitutional not, give the peoples elected Commission wants the Revision State Auditor and Attorney General funds to duplicate these above section amended as follows: duties and responsibilities . One of the most contemptible plots to trick Utahs voters into giving up more control of their government is sponsored by proponents of the Constitutional beneficial to the people, then I Phil Hanson Does Not Want Auditor wants the State Treasurer The voters of Utah are being asked to vote upon amendments to their state Constitution while at the same time copies of the to follow. amendments that have been passed over the years are comments concerning this: From the newspaper reports, Mr. Rosenblatt wants to do away with practically all the elected officials except the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. He wants the Attorney General to be Sherman J. Preece, State Auditor, appointed by the Governor; he Here's the Before and After Analysis legislature that the voter could not control. These alleged of these Constitutional following it is wrong.- - supported most of our bureaucracy within the Constitutional amendments over the years have lied to die people in order to get them passed. We have lots of people who dont believe in freedom for the Auditor, made the ed Section 22: Every bill shall be read by title three separate times in each house except in cases where of the house where such bill is pending suspend this requirement. two-thir- ds In other words, an effort is being made to stifle the reading of bills before voting upon them. Under the present proposition, even the titles need not be read of the house if two-thirds suspend that requirement. The founders of the Constitution put the requirement that all bills must be read as a protection against the legislators and the public not understanding what was being presented, voted upon, and enacted. The present Constitutional amendment unwisely removes that requirement. Section 23 of the present Constitution is incorporated into Section 22 of the proposed amendment. Section 23 of the amendment reads: Notwithstanding any this of Constitution, provision in any law imposing income taxes, may define the amount on, in respect to, or by which the taxes are the Legislature, imposed or measured, by reference to any provision of the . Continued On Page S-- 4 . |