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setts.

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Addressing myself now to the question of

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continuity --

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher, I think it

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might be helpful if we take up the questioning on each of

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the three subjects because they are so diverse.

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Are there any questions of the committee chairman

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with respect to Congressional districting? Delegate

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Gilchrist.

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DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Mr. Chairman, is there any

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real necessity for the inclusion of a congressional

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districting provision in our constitution?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I think the necessity

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arises from the woeful lack of success which the General

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Assembly has enjoyed, or not enjoyed, in its past attempts.

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I think if we provide them with guidelines that one would

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anticipate that if they acted at all they would act within

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the constitutional realm which hopefully would keep them

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out of the courts. I think that would be the purpose.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gilchrist.

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DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Is it not true that Article I,

Section 4, of the Federal Constitution places the entire