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made during earlier debatt that if we don't put constitutions

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provisions in that what we are trying to do, or what we

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will allow the General Assembly to do is to pass the least

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acceptable kind of Congressional redistricting,so this

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would be an attempt to hold them up to a higher level of

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performance than might be expected of them if there were no

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state constitutional standards.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gilchrist.

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DELEGATE GILCHRIST: But it still remains a

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strong possibility that the standards which are set

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forth in this section may be totally inconsistent with

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standards which are adopted by Congress.

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: You are quite right, and I

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would say this, however, that since there has been nothing

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of significance in the field since 1929, the Congressional

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Redistricting Act, 38 years have gone by with Congress

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failing to act and there has been a continuous effort

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since 1951 on the part of Congressman Celler to do

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something, but nothing significant has been done there

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and nothing would have been done at all, it seems to me,

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without the decision of the Supreme Court in Westbury v.