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such a check, it is best secured through other consti-

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tutional provisions, not through a legislative check, as

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such. If you want to have checks on expropriations, you

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have these checks through the Governor's veto, by referen-

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dum; but to have a check in the legislature just to have

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a check in the legislature is not something defensible in

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theory.

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MR. HARVEY: On that last paragraph, on Page 5,

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I think there is a misprint there, unicameralists instead

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of bicameralists.

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DR. MICHENER: Yes. A more serious attack is

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made on what is now one of the prime defenses of bicameral-

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ism. that it Rives an independent review of legislation.

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The unicameralists assert first that this

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factually is not true, that in a bicameral legislature,

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as a matter of actual fact, legislation is introduced, it

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piles up at the end of the session and it is passed

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hastily, without any review; that one chamber will often

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pass legislation on the assumption that the second chamber

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will review it. Particularly with noncontroversial legis-

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lation, it is true, according to unicameralists, the