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people ask, and not altogether illogically, if the two

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houses now are going to be set up on the same basis, why

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then, why have two?

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There is, in the second place, the fact that a

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great many legislatures, bicameral, and although certain

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of them at the present time feel some sort of ill repute;

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you get all sorts of reports of unsavory events and failure

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out of the state capitols, this one and others. It's all

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pretty much the same bolt.

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There are efforts being made, some very fine

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efforts being made to do something to improve our legis-

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latures, but it seems that this type of problem, as it

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existed for the twenty-five years that unicameralism has

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progressed, it makes one wonder if this is at least a

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part of an answer to this problem of restoring our legis-

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latures; and then, of course, the series of points which

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were made by Dr. Michener in his excellent paper, this

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second look business.

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If this were a primary purpose of having a

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second chamber or having too chambers, we have other

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machinery, other techniques, other ways by which this