10,871

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Consequently, we are certainly pretty far from any actual

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view of population as it exists today. There have been

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tremendous shifts in population.

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I think that the deviations in the General

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Assembly based even on the 1960 Census are in the 60

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per cent category, whereas the Federal Congressional

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Districts which were redistricted in 1966 by a federal

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court, while it is true they used 1960 Census figures

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the deviations there are less than two per cent, so

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certainly the likelihood of malapportionment is much greater

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for the General Assembly as it exists today than it is with

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congressional redistricting.

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Now, I am not arguing with you that some

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very unfortunate things were done by the Federal court

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in the 1966 case, but it has the one overriding virtue

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of being substantially equal in population. It also

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preserved a few congressional seats, whose members happened

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to be chairmen of the committees.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Fox.

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DELEGATE FOX: Delegate Gallagher, would

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it be possible for Section 303(c) , the congressional