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I don't know how acceptable a comparison with

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the city legislatures and a unicameral state legislature

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would be as far as convincing people. This is not answer-

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ing your question, though.

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MR. ENEY: I was particularly thinking of

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Maryland. As Dr. Bard mentioned, we have had the City

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Council perhaps since the mid-20's in Baltimore City, and

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you have counties with charter governments, all of which

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have unicameral councils.

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I am sitting here wondering what are the differ-

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ences between the County Council in Montgomery County, for

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example, and the legislature that would perhaps make uni-

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cameralism desirable in one and not in the other?

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THE CHAIRMAN: And we certainly want to hear

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from Dr. Graves on this, but some of the arguments I get

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to read would primarily be concerned with the sheer

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geography involved and the heterogeneity of the state,

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let us say, in relationship to that of the local unit,

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which would tend to be more homogeneous.

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Let's hear from Dr. Winslow on this and then

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turn to Dr. Graves, so T will know we will deal with some