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Show Arguments Against j f) Voters should reject Proposition 2, because certain improvements need to be made in it before consent is given for I this amending of the Utah Constitution. The following J arguments deal with those portions of Proposition 2 which provide reasons to oppose it at this time. The brief proposal for Article IX, Section 1 is inadequate. Instead of as proposed, that section needs to have a statementof the state's responsibility in the election of members of the United States House of Representatives and Senate in keeping with federal law. The section should refer to new apportionments apportion-ments by Congress, as well as to the United States enumeration (census) in setting forth the Legislature's duty in dividing the state accordingly. It should specify that the "districts" referred to are districts having to do with elections. It would also be a protection of fair division to specify that each is to be one whole parcel, not made up of separated parcels. For historical sense, Article XIX, Section 1 should not be eliminated. That section ought to be retained for its historical record of part of the transition from territory to state which is of on going consequence, not action to be reversed by repeal of the section. The responsibility indicated in Article XIX, Section 2 should not be repealed. The part of that section beginning with "institutions" and continuing on through to the end of the section ought to be retained as a statement of state responsibility. Appropriate parts of Article XIX, Section 3 should be retained. The last two paragraphs of that section should remain with some modification. Use the wording change: "The seat of state government shall be at Salt Lake City;" but keep it in Article XIX, Section 3 where it is appropriate, rather than moving it to become one of the miscellaneous items in Article XXII. Additionally, the last paragraph of Article XIX, Section 3 ought to be (with needed grammatical changes) retained in keeping with the statement of responsibility in Section 2 of the article. Voters should note that the other portions of Proposition 2 are desirable, but can wait for the above improvements before being approved. Those desirable parts of Proposition 2 are not urgent because they are a matter of eliminating passe andor ineffectual wording or deal with changes that are not of pressing need. Therefore, those revisions and the improvements suggested above can be proposed by the upcoming Legislature and approved by the voters at the next general election two years from now. Vote "AGAINST" Proposition 2! Marjorie Childs 342 Camaren Drive Brigham City, Utah 84302 i |