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Now, it would be possible, I think, to get some data on

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what happened in that exchange from one to the other at

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the local level, because the original arguments for a

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bicameral city council were almost identical with those

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which are made for the bicameral state legislature; that

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is, it was a question of the representation of different

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interests, it was a question of a review, so you don't get

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hasty and ill-considered legislation, et cetera.

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So that the evidence, I think, would have to

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come from what has happened not with respect to a compari-

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son between the local and the state, but what has happened

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locally between one legislature and the other.

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The other thing which I would like to suggest,

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and I won't take time, Mr. Chairman, to present it now,

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that there is considerable evidence, statistical evidence,

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even, with respect to this matter of how much is there to

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this reconsideration by a second chamber. There are

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statistical studies on this on individual state legisla-

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tures to show how important or unimportant, as you going

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to interpret it, this matter is of reconsideration by the

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second house.