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1	You just have to decide whether you accept this.
2	The facts that compare Nebraska with other
3	states just do not exist and separations as to how much
4	this happens in Nebraska because of unicameralism, how
5	much is due to nonpartisanship is again not clear. So,
6	we have a series of claims here which you have to evaluate.
7	I just want to point out that these are not
8	demonstrable in terms of what I would consider real solid
9	studies.
10	The thing that I think is pertinent here, what
11	I thought was quite helpful, at least to me, was that in
12	terms of Maryland history, that Maryland first came to
13	bicameralism as a vehicle for obtaining more popular
14	participation in the government, not as a check on popular
15	participation. The statement is often made that we picked
16	up bicameralism as a check on the wishes of the masses,
17	or both, and this just isn't true as far as Maryland is
18	concerned; and I suspect it is not historically true as
19	far as other colonies are concerned, but in Maryland we
20	had the second chamber, the lower chamber, in order to
21	have an independence from the Governor. The Governor