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advice, since I can't be held to task for this.

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First of all, I feel quite firmly and quite

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strongly that the burden of proof in this field, in this

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whole question, lies upon the defenders of the bicameral

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system. If, indeed, as Dr. Graves has said, that there is

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nothing you can do with a unicameral that you can't do with

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a bicameral, it seems to me the obvious conclusion you

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use the simpler system.

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Now, the strategic question of whether you can

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get this kind of thing sold to the people or not is

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another one. I guess I'm a one-houser. I don't know, I

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don't like the term unicameralist, but I'm a one-houser,

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because mainly I can't find one thing that satisfies me

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as a reasonable defense for the bicameral system other

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than the political considerations. It is interesting, too,

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I think, as we go back in history far enough, we find that

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the two-house legislature preceded the development of the

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legislature function, if I'm not mistaken here; that this

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thing originated essentially because the churchmen and the

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nobles wouldn't sit with the knights and the commoners

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when the king wanted to raise money, and this is before