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There was some discussion downstairs about not

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recommending the unicameral system because of strategic

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problems; and this is where I am getting presumptuous.

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If I view your role correctly, you are in effect making

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recommendations to a prospective constitutional convention.

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It would seem to me that you could very well, if you de-

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cide that this is something you want to try, you could

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make this recommendation strongly or include it as a pos-

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sibility, leaving it up to the convention to do what you

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know they are going to do, anyway, but that you start this

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process of what Mr. Eney has called the process of educating

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the people in the long run, and if the Commission were to

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give its endorsement to something of this kind, it at

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least makes it legitimate; where now it is nothing more

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than the brainchild of obscure college professors and the

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League of Women Voters.

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One final thing, and this is an impression I

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have from studying the constitutional efforts in quite a

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number of states. Don't settle for less than you can get

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from the people. In Alaska, for example, I think I'm

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right on this, there was a good deal of sentiment, I