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in it and would like some of the states to experiment with

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it, if we wanted to have an impact upon legislature

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structure, we ought to talk about what most state legis-

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latures have, the bicameral pattern, and that is why it

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finds its way into the footnote and does not reflect the

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change in the A. M. L. philosophy on this.

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The second thing is if this Commission should

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adopt the unicameral legislature as a proposal or should

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adopt the bicameral legislature as a proposal, I think if

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it is going to make recommendations on the bicameral system,

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it should definitely make some strong recommendations as

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to the structure of that legislature.

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In the model, we came out with a provision that

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we couldn't see any point in the upper house being more

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than about one-third the size of the lower house and we

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felt that if you were going to set up legislative districts,

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that the house districts couldn't in effect be put together

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then to conform with the senatorial districts, and there

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was no particular reason for tying these into twisting

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units of government which would or would not make any

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sense, as far as apportionment is concerned.