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To do this, you have to do two things. You have to
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create important legislative posts and, in the Legisla-
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ture now, you have people serving, it is almost an
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assembly of unequals, in the sense that you have people
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who are serving who are a small body, whose votes are
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worth a lot and then you have people serving in a large
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body whose votes are relatively worth not too much.
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A unicameral system would place everyone
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on an equal basis. It would, by reducing the size,
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it would create important positions which could be
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full time or largely full time, well paid, well staffed
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with legislative aides. In designing a unicameral
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system, I would say that 30 or 35 districts, with 2
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representatives called assemblymen or senators for 8
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districts, and I would consider the Oregon system of
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making each one a separate office, so that people would
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run for post No. 1, post No. 2 separately, rather than
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having the people who serve in that district run against
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one another. That is the system they use in Oregon now,
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in both the member districts.
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I think that summarizes my thinking. I think
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