# LCMS Commission on Constitutional Matters Minutes_St. Louis Missouri_OCTOBER 8 9 1964_S8
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several parts: 1) Should the Vice-Presidents be given the privilege of a
vote on the Synod's Board of Directors? 2) Should Teachers be given the
privilege of a vote at District Conventions or at the sessions of the Delegate

Synod =

226, Some time was devoted in discussing these questions, Eventually
the Commission came to the conclusion that both questions should be answered
in the negative in view of the fact that giving the Vice-Presidents on the
Synod's Board of Directors and the Teachers at District and Synodical Con-
ventions the right of suffrage would destroy the historic position of the Synod

that a balance in voting power should be maintained between clergy and laity,

227, Brother Luessenhop expressed his readiness to convey the
position of the Commission to President Niermann and to elaborate on the
line of reasoning which the Commission had followed in crystalizing its

opinion,

228, During the discussion it was emphasized that the Vice-Presidents
and the Teachers do have the right to speak on the floor of Conventions, and
that the Teachers are in reality adequately represented by virture of the fact

that those congregations having parochial schools are represented by voting

delegates,
229, Adjournment was taken at nine o'clock,
Friday Morning Session - October 9, 1964

229, The Meeting was opened with prayer spoken by Commission

Member Luessenhop.