1960 Democratic National Convention - CBS excerpt
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[0:14] committed in a continuation of our
[0:17] efforts to unify the Democratic party to
[0:21] help ensure that the voters of our
[0:23] states support the nominees of this
[0:27] convention and still retain their self
[0:30] respect we request delegates from all
[0:34] states to join with us in rejecting that
[0:38] portion of section four of the proposed
[0:41] platform entitled civil rights we call
[0:46] upon delegates from all the states of
[0:48] the
[0:49] Union North South East and West to join
[0:53] with us in defending against the
[0:55] calculated effort which is being made by
[0:59] the radicals of both political parties
[1:01] to drive the states of the south from
[1:04] the Democratic
[1:11] party upon the adoption of the proposed
[1:14] civil rights plank in the meeting of the
[1:16] platform committee yesterday July 11th
[1:21] 1960 the states that that have signed
[1:24] this descent filed a simple objection
[1:28] stating that we emphatic repudiated
[1:31] those Provisions
[1:33] incompatible with the Constitution of
[1:35] the United States which undertakes to
[1:39] establish an indestructible Union of
[1:43] indestructible States we asserted then
[1:47] and we assert now that the rights of
[1:51] man which is the purported theme of this
[1:55] platform can be protected only by the
[1:59] the observance of the Constitutional
[2:02] division of delegated powers be between
[2:06] the federal and state governments and by
[2:09] strict adherence to the Constitutional
[2:13] guarantee that all powers not delegated
[2:16] by the states to the union are reserved
[2:18] to the states or to the
[2:21] people the 10th Amendment to the
[2:24] Constitution of the United
[2:26] States is a part of the bill of right
[2:30] right equal in force and dignity