# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S444
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444 CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

V. CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS

Report of the Committee on Constitutional Matters
(Report 501)

President W. H. Meyer again served as chairman during the
triennium, and the undersigned as secretary. The other members

rial 802, Proceedings 1953, pp. 482 fa recommendation to amend
Section 2.71 as follows: “The Board of Directors shall be consti-
tuted as follows: The President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer
of Synod by virtue of their office, and one pastor or layman from
each District of Synod in the United States and Canada with a total
communicant membership of twenty-five thousand or over, to be
elected according to Synod’s rules.” An equal number of pastors
and laymen was to be elected. The Committee on Constitutional
Matters could see no valid reason for the change. At present
already the various sections of Synod from coast to coast and from
Minnesota to Texas are represented. To increase the membership
would make the Board too large and unwieldy, not to mention the

The following changes in the Bylaws are recommended by
the Committee on Constitutional Matters:

Section 1.61, Rights of Advisory Members. Lines 1 to 7 are
to be Paragraph “ag.” That last sentence is to be “b.” A new
paragraph, “ec,” is to be added: “Advisory pastors who are tempo-

Section .2.05. Add to the list of those to be appointed by the
Board of Directors “A Controller” and “A Planning Counselor.”
Section 2.11. The present wording should remain as it is as
Paragraph “a,” and Paragraph “b” should be added as follows: