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