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In 194S the Virginia General Assembly, in a laudable effort to rel eve the men and women serving in the armed forces of th# irksome .duty of paying a fee for the right of suffrage, bei ame timid, or tamed, at the last moment, land said that the Constitutional Convention must be limited solely to thif small phasejrf the whole poll tax problem. In other words the basic error of the poll tax as applied to the whole citizenship of Virginia was ignored. This was doubtless due to the fact that the organized politicians thrive solely upon this restriction—the poll tax—upon the free expression of the will of the Virginia people. To thwart the rising demand for a straightforward approach to ;the whole poll tax question, the organized politicians put through a provision in the General Assembly to outwit Ithe sovereign power of a Constitutional Convention, and detour the full poll tax question through a commission; to “study" the (proposition, a trick.of delay and frustration. Sic Semper
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_ te Senator Frank Ball of Arlington in Announcing his jcandidacy as a delegate to the 1945 Constitutional Convention stated: “I will not consider myself bound by any restriction attempted to be placed on the Convention by the legislature. He asserted, “a Constitutional Convention is th| to any tribur
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