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words around here and this is actually what the man said —

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but with the bicameral legislature you can halt legisla-

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tion where there is tremendous pressure for it and where

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it would be impossible to defeat it outright; that it will

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go between two houses and you have a chance to get further

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consideration. The unicameralists say this is no argu-

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ment for bicameralism at all, that if legislation is un-

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desired and there is popular pressure for it, the proper

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role of the legislature is to educate the people as to

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why it is not desirable, not to kill it behind the scenes.

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The other one here is an argument that you are

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going to have a dominant legislature that is going to take

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over the government and it is going to exert disproportion-

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ate power. This is an old historical argument. It is a

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fact that it has not proved this way and probably today

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it is strengthening the legislature, not breaking up its

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unity, so it cannot be on a level with the Governor. There

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is no danger today of any legislature overpowering the

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government.

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The argument that is made quite often here and

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does have to be mentioned is the question of the lobby and