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changing aspirations of the community. It is very unlikely that any system, and particularly a new and largely untried system, could survive without change for a period of 50 years. It might therefore be more prudent to provide some machinery in the Basic Law to enable
changes to be made. For example, the Basic Law might provide that the Legislature could propose changes by a resolution supported by a certain proportion (perhaps two thirds) of the members of the legislature, and that the changes would have to be endorsed by the NPC Standing Committee.
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