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significant degree you have an unwieldy committee.
Therefore, I would submit that the analogy between the
House and the Senate considering it as the General Assembly
and this Constitutional Convention really is not a good
one, and like so many, it limps quite badly.
As I said when 1 opposed this amendment in the
beginning, it would be most unfortunate if the
happenstance of history and reapportionment, and the Court
decree which brought us to a figure of 142 in the House
and 43 in the Senate, which certainly wasn't a well-reasoned
approach; it was an approach that was- reached at the end
of a judicial shotgun, that we would find it necessary
to bless it and give it the sanctity of a permanent
marriage.
It was an unhappy courtship, to say the least.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other delegate desire
to speak in favor of the amendment?
Delegate Caldwell.
DELEGATE CALDWELL; Mr. Chairman, the one-man/
one-vote doctrine, the small counties are going to eventually
die. I believe that we should give them representation |
