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Excerpt from Address by the Citizens' Association of Chicago: Constitutional Convention and Other Legislation
It would seem an easy matter to establish a Court for Police pur poses. Under our present Constitution, but that would not do away with the present abominable institutions which would thereafter ?ourish all the better from having a monopoly of the worst kind of business. So with Taxation; the Revenue Law could be amended, but in doing so all the rest of the State would be involved, and in the greater part of it no change would be tolerated. The question is complicated, in our case, with territorial difficulties, such as con solidation of the city towns, which is out of the question under present laws; any attempt to accomplish it would invite failure. We have now eleven assessors in the territory which makes up the Citv of Chicago. We have also, in Cook County, the anomaly of a dual school system, which should be abolished.
The restriction of Constitutional Amendments to that of one arti cle at a time is an effectual bar to any amendment of it whatever that has local application only. Laws for our relief under the pres ent Constitution would either be unconstitutional or fail to provide a. Remedy for the evils under which we are suffering.
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