THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Tamckrino With Thk Constitution
Measures alfeeting the Constitution of a State should have the approval of the people and change should ho most carefully considered. “Our Constitution,” wrote Edmund Burke, •‘stands on a. nice equipoise, With steep precipices and deep waters upon all •sides of it. Every project of a material change in a government so complicated as ours is a matter full of difficulties, in which a considerate man will not he too ready to decide, a prudent man not too ready to undertake, or an honest man too ready to promise.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1926, Page 2
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97THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1926, Page 2
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