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they had the power of legislation. Historically, we may

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have adopted some of our second houses as a way of getting

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more representation, but at least the theoretical argu-

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ments were at the time in terms of protecting ourselves

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against popular passions, which leads me to think there

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is still something to the first defense of bicameralism

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as a protection for the property classes, because politics

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is still a matter of taking from some people and giving to

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other people, and those that have are usually the ones

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that are not particularly interested in active government

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and those that don't have tend to be the driving force for

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governmental action in our time.

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I think — these are a lot of disjointed state-

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ments, but these have been building up as I have been

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listening to the previous comments. I think you are

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going to be terribly disappointed if you seek to find

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data, empirical data that will support or clearly differ-

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entiate these issues. I think you are going to end up

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having to make some kind of decision on this on the basis

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of perhaps theory.

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When our government was set up, the dominant