# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S198
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

198 Constitutional Matters

chairman, and a secretary. They shall be appointed from the com-
mittee’s membership by Synod’s Committee on Nominations, and
they shall constitute the committee’s executive board.

3. The duties of this committee shall be:

(a) To consider appeals by individual members and congrega-
‘tions from decisions of any District;

(b) To render decisions on the appeals brought before it.

4, When appeals are presented, they shall be addressed to the
secretary of the committee, who shall promptly present them in
writing to the executive board of the committee. This board shall
then decide whether the appeal can be handled by the executive
board or is of a nature which warrants the calling of a meeting of
the committee; and the chairman shall then call such a meeting.
The committee shall be empowered to make investigations wher-
ever such may be deemed necessary.

5. This committee shall be governed in its acts and judgments
by the generally accepted rules of just judicature according to true
Christian principles.

6. Every decision of this committee shall be considered final,
subject, however, to the approval of Synod, which may amend or
reverse the decision at the convention next following the handing
down of the decision.

7. Every appeal brought before this committee must be pre-
sented in writing; and an exact copy of such appeal must be sent
simultaneously to the individual, officer, congregation, or District
concerned.

Simplifymg Our Election System

At the last convention of Synod the following resolution was
introduced and adopted by Synod:

“WuereEAs, The voting delegates are in conscience bound to
vote intelligently on all matters presented to the Synod; and

“WHEREAS, This finds particular application in the election of
officers, boards, and committee members; and

“WuerEAS, The slates of candidates contain very few names of
candidates with whom the voters are acquainted; and

“Wuerreas, It thus develops that most of the electing is done
with utter lack of intelligence on the part of the voters; and

“Wuereas, It would appear to be necessary to simplify our
election system in order to overcome the aforesaid objection; there-
fore be it

“Resolved, That we authorize and instruct the Committee on
Constitutional Matters, and it is hereby authorized and instructed,
to study this problem and to report its findings to the next con-