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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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You just have to decide whether you accept this.

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The facts that compare Nebraska with other

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states just do not exist and separations as to how much

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this happens in Nebraska because of unicameralism, how

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much is due to nonpartisanship is again not clear. So,

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we have a series of claims here which you have to evaluate.

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I just want to point out that these are not

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demonstrable in terms of what I would consider real solid

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studies.

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The thing that I think is pertinent here, what

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I thought was quite helpful, at least to me, was that in

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terms of Maryland history, that Maryland first came to

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bicameralism as a vehicle for obtaining more popular

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participation in the government, not as a check on popular

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participation. The statement is often made that we picked

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up bicameralism as a check on the wishes of the masses,

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or both, and this just isn't true as far as Maryland is

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concerned; and I suspect it is not historically true as

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far as other colonies are concerned, but in Maryland we

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had the second chamber, the lower chamber, in order to

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have an independence from the Governor. The Governor



 

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