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DELEGATE GLEASON: I say once more to my
fellow Delegates in this Committee and this Convention
we are here dealing with a situation that is unique in the
history of State government in the United States. We
should allow time for the Supreme Court decision to have
effect. We should allow time to see what the gambits and
parameters of these decisions may be, and we should
allow this matter to be discussed in Committees, and be
discussed with people that can take a lot of time to
consider it and not put it and freeze it into the
Constitution.
Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, it is most
unfortunate that the sponsor of the amendment would
hold out what I would characterize as the whimsical hope
that the Supreme Court of the United States is going to
change its one-man/one-vote rule, and that we feel is
inevitable will not happen. I have said that we developed
figures to show that if every county in this State were
to have one member of the House in 1970, it would at least |
