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...starting up a constitutional convention. Hawaii is one of three states (the others being Illinois and Connecticut) with the issue of rewriting its constitution on the ballot. And it is also the object lesson for all who'd like to do so. Hawaii has convened what locals call "ConCons" twice since 1968, both with far reaching consequences. Now several influential groups are calling for a third. "You have no idea what can happen," says veteran Honolulu journalist Jerry Burris, who covered the hot and humid ConCon in the summer of 1978 that convened in downtown Honolulu's old federal building...
Hawaii's first Constitutional Convention was organized in 1968 to correct problems with state legislative voting districts - and ended up giving public workers the right to strike. Ten years later, the islands' second ConCon began with no particular agenda, just a feeling in the post-Watergate era that Hawaii's government needed to be more accountable to its people. Nevertheless, it resulted in 34 separate amendments - more than 1,000 individual changes to Hawaii's state constitution - that included the addition of the untranslated phrase, "Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono" in the constitution's preamble...
Such were some of the pluses. ConCon also produced some minuses -none more emotional than the inaccurately named Blaine Amendment...
...Governor saw "no reason why the New York State Constitution should be more restrictive in this regard than the Constitution of the United States." And faced with the problem of having to throw out the good with the bad in the lumped-together, take-it-or-leave-it ConCon package, Rocky chose to take the bad with the good. He announced that he would vote yes-and then try to get what he did not like changed later. New York's voters will get a chance to render their decision next month...
...Wolf Miss Hempel I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-veda Holst Hymn to Agni, Hymn to Indra, Hymn to Manas Saltarelle Saint-Sains Harvard Glee Club Grand Aria Adi Bravusa Onorba leggiera Meyerbier Folk Songs O! du Liebe Angeli, Swiss Concon, Canari Jalloux, Neuchatel LAuterbach, German Nightingale, Russian Miss Hempel Mother Moscow Tschesnokor La Garde Passe, from "Les Deux Avares" Gretry Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, from "Samson" Handel Harvard Glee Club