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1	describing where it did lie. It was sort of evasive.
2	Would you care to comment briefly on where it does?
3	MR. KENTNER: I think I will be a bit evasive,
4	too. I think there are a number of similarities on a num-
5	ber of points which could be made about state legislatures
6	in general, which I think would be perhaps largely true
7	in Nebraska, which is to say that power depends upon the
8	individual and the powerful individual will exercise that
9	power, and I think this is simply true in Nebraska.
10	There are powerful individuals in the legisla-
11	ture who exercise a great deal of influence in the legis-
12	lature, just as there are in any legislature, and I would
13	have a very difficult time defending the proposition that
14	the power structure of the Nebraska legislature was sig-
15	nificantly different than that in any other legislature.
16	MR. ENEY: Mr. Kentner, 1 would like to ask a
17	question somewhat along the same lines, although the form
18	of the question at least is different. With nonpartisan-
19	ship, you lose the advantages, whatever they may be, of
20	the two-party system. Does this result in a proliferation
21	of parties or cliques in the legislature? Do you then end