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department of the university for many years wrote a

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commentary at the end of the first unicameral session,

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in which he reported that this session demonstrated an

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absence of hasty legislation, a simplified and smoothly

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working procedure; a better personnel, the liberation of

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the legislature from the domination of the Governor as the

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titular head of his party, and the leaders of the political

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parties and the general publicity by means of which the

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unilateral legislature had revived, as it were, an interest

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of the people of the State in their law-making body. I

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won't elaborate on that because that is a report of an

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evaluation of the Nebraska experience.

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After World War II, there wasn't much agitation

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then for this change, but the model constitution continued

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to recommend it. The American Political Science Associa-

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tion's committee on American legislatures was published

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with a very favorable attitude toward unicameralism, and

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I had one little interesting personal experience in Ann

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Arbor which I think may be worth mentioning.

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For a number of years, I used to go to Detroit

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to attend a program there at Wayne University and sometimes