Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose of the meeting is to adopt a charter that will spell out the ways in which the party should conduct its affairs. The worry is that conservatives and liberals will exacerbate all their traditional differences by arguing over the document in full view of the TV news cameras. "God, we don't want a confrontation right now," says one state organizer for Senator Henry Jackson, a leading prospect for the nomination...
Rigid Rules. If adopted by the 2,038 delegates in Kansas City, the charter would be the first constitution ever accepted by either of the two major parties, which have been run by sets of rules that could be changed with relative ease as various factions gained power. The Democrats' proposed charter would give the party a formalized and comprehensive set of rules that would be more difficult to alter. Provisions deal with such basic issues as the power of the national organization over state parties; proportional representation in primaries...
Faced with these fundamental issues, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss has been diligently trying to work out middle-of-the-road compromises that will avoid a split in Kansas City. His prediction: "The story of Kansas City will be that the Democrats adopted a party charter and left town unified...
...nominated Senator Hubert Humphrey. In the aftermath, the Democratic National Committee created a commission, initially headed by Senator George McGovern, to rewrite the guidelines for choosing delegates for the 1972 convention. The commission's sweeping reforms are now generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take part in the process. But one provision of the guidelines turned out to be explosively controversial: a quota system for minority groups, youth and women...
...presidential convention, chaired by Baltimore City Councilor Barbara Mikulski, earlier this year reached a compromise on the matter of quotas and affirmative action. The Kansas City convention, with the encouragement of Strauss and party moderates, might adopt the compromise language of the Mikulski commission for the permanent party charter...