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do we want to restrain them? Someone once counted twenty-

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eight steps in the legislative process, I think, at the

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Federal level, anyway, and suggested if the majority

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wanted something, it had to control twenty-eight steps.

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The minority, the block action, only had to control one

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of these steps. This is a gross exaggeration, but I think

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it points out the principle I'm trying to make here.

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I guess, if I can skip to the presumptuous

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advice and perhaps skip some of these other things that

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I would have referred to; one thing relates to a point in

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the most recent model state constitution that we brought

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out. In the sixth edition, for the first time we call for

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or make provisions for an alternative pattern for structur-

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ing the legislature. We said in effect that we will pro-

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vide an alternative provision for a bicameral legislature.

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This is the first time the model has reflected

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any interest in the bicameral pattern. This was done not

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in terms of a shift in the A. M. L. traditional support for

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the unicameral legislature, but a feeling on the part of

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some of us that there wasn't a great deal of interest in

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this institution and, despite the fact we still believed