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is a representational value. How can we best represent
the many interests that make up this state in the General
Assembly.
A second value we have to reconcile with that
is how we can have an effective legislature not only in
terms of the size of the respective houses to conduct business,
but by removing from the legislative arena what is not
a legislative but a constitutional problem, and that is
what should be the sizes fixed for the House and for the
Senate.
That is our job. That is the job of the Constitu-
tional Convention. The committee has deliberated long on
these points. It has done what can be done in its Judgment
to reconcile these two sometimes conflicting interests.
THE CHAIRMAN: You have one half minute, Delegate
Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: There is no way under this plan,
proposed as an amendment, that any county can be perpetually
guaranteed a seat or even a seat in 1970. There is no way
under the plan of the committee that any person living
in any county in any part of this state will be denied |
