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DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Yes, is the answer.
THE CHAIRMAN: His question is, what portion
of the proposed language justifies the answer?
DELEGATE GILCHIRST: "The General Assembly
shall prescribe by law the ratio of the number of members
of the House of Delegates to the number of members of the
Senate," in lines 12 through Ib.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: As I understand, reading on,
you say, "But the ratio shall not be greater than four-
to-one."
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Yes. This is not a mul-
tiple. This is a ratio. This is not a series of ratios.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: As I understand it, then,
the legislature could sometime in the future set up a
situation where we could have 20 senators and 60 delegates
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Yes, sir.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: Or this could make it 36
and 144?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: Yes. |
