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a statewide referendum where the result might be that the

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people in those two counties, which are affected, would

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be overwhelmingly in support of it, but it might lose by

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a vote in the statewide referendum?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss, do you desire

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to answer?

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DELEGATE KOSS: Well, the general rationale

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for this was, as I pointed out before, to continue the

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existing provisions. I admit that we had not had the

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opportunity to hold hearings on this, but we had not received

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any evidence either that this has done any great disservice

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to any part of the state that had law imposed upon it,

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which was to the detriment, and it had no opportunity to

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so sav.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Bamberger, I think

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there is an addition which may be made to Delegate Koss'

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answer, and that is that the whole philosophy of the

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Constitution drafted by this Convention is to confine the

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General Assembly to laws of statewide import, and

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obviously such laws should be referrable only on a state-

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wide basis. The exemptions to that principle, that is,