Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A motion to stipulate that the constitution be ratified by a canvass of three-fifths of undergraduates, with two-thirds of those voting approving, was postponed until convention delegates could talk to students about the issue.
The main objection many students have with the rough draft of the constitution released this week is the low limit on voter turnout in the draft, convention members said last night.
The rough draft states that if two-thirds of the students voting approve of the constitution, the student assembly would be ratified.
"I think it's assinine to talk about what margin we need to set our voting level at to push our constitution through," Stephen Winthrop '80, a South House delegate, said last night. "If we don't have a strong mandate then we will simply not be the sole legitimate...
Meanwhile, the nation's two major dailies took the dispute to their editorial pages. After a Times editorial accused the Post of "a second-rate burglary of H.R. Haldeman's memoir of a third-rate burglary," the Post in a lead editorial slashed back. Its coup was "first...