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 One offshoot of the new odd-year business convention is that this years' Party officers will have a one-year term rather than two-year term of office.  The alternative of a three-year term was debated and narrowly defeated with many delegates option for the one-year term simply because it will provide a check by the Party on how the national officers are carrying out their responsibilities.
+===Business Meetings To Be On Odd Years===
+Other changes in the [[Document:National Constitution, Bylaws, and Convention Rules 1974|Constitution]] call for a doubling in the size of the National Executive Committee and an increase in the number of delegates to the regular convention to approximately 400.  Also, alternate delegates to the conventions may number as many as the respective states choose.
+===Platform Debate===
+Numerous changes were made in the [[Document:National Platform 1974|LP Platform]] (the LP is the only major political party to adopt a new platform every two years rather than once every four years).  The debate on the taxation plank was the longest and most heated of the convention.  The text of this plank was ultimately unanimously adopted and it reflects the spirit of cooperation among the delegates in Dallas:
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