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DELEGATE CASE: Do you mean to say that the
governor could not, or a redistricting cormpission similar
to that established for the General Assembly, could not
be provided for here?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE G'ALLAGHER: You could provide for a
redistricting commission, but you could never provide
in mv opinion that the coTnmission plan would become law.
Something further must happen, and that is to say
the General Assembly must be the final actor in the pro"
cess. That is to say, whatever plan is adopted must be a
plan that was ultimately adopted by the General Assembly.
You could use the commission idea to start it
off, or to initiate it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Can you tell me what authority
thpre is for that statement? In other words, why can it
be one wav for the state reoresentatave body and cannot be
that way for the Federal?
THE CHAIPJ''AN: Deiccratn Gallaqher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: "ell, ail the writinq in