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ond they have a technical drafting before presented to

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the legislature, so that when the legislature works on it,

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this in itself is a second independent review and when you

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go to a second chamber of the legislature, the argument

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then is made that we have already had a review by the

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specialists in the area, we've already had a review by

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the people representing the interests of the populous,

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and we are now having the review by a group that is nor-

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mally neither technically professional in the area nor

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more representative, of the population. So, they have

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nothing further to contribute. So, this is a third

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argument made by the unicameralists as to why a claimed

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second chamber review is not appropriate or necessary

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today.

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There are some other points in here which are

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relatively minor. I will skip over them, unless --

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THE CHAIRMAN: Read perhaps the opening sen-

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tence of these paragraphs so we have some familiarity with

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the minor points. This is Page 8, I think.

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DR. MICHENER: This is Page 8. The statement

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that with a bicameral legislature — and I turned the