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determine, actually find out whether the improvements that
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have occurred in the State of Nebraska would occur like-
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wise in Pennsylvania or Michigan or New York or other
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states.
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Well, now we come to what I call the fourth
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period, the period we are in now which follows the Supreme
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Court decisions and all of the tremendous hullabaloo that
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we have been living through this problem of reapportion-
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ment. This has given new life, new vitality, and new
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interest to the problem of unicameralism. Well, as I say,
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in the past, I certainly have not been an ardent advocate
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of it. It seems to me that this situation, this current
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situation strengthens its claim to consideration for
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probably three reasons.
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We've always said that we have two houses, so
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we could have a different basis of representation. Well,
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theoretically, you still can, but the Court has told us
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that the main consideration has to be population and, if
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you use any other factors, they are used in a secondary
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way or in a way which does not interfere with the preva-
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lence of the population concept of representation; and
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