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taking you in any order. We would like for you to speak

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up spontaneously, as the spirit moves you. Senator

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Curran?

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SENATOR CURRAN: Doctor, thank you. I would

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have to, perhaps not for as good reasons, but at this

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point, at least, disagree with Senator James and Meyer.

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I am a product of only one system, having had eight

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years in Annapolis and having only lived by the bicameral

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system.

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I am not so sure that the unicameral -- perhaps

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it has some advantages, but this one man-one vote decision

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is very recent and we can't expect many of the states to

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adopt this new attitude, but we do have the reality that

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only one out of 50 has a unicameral system. In years to

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come, maybe more and more will adopt Kansas'

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THE CHAIRMAN: Nebraska.

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SENATOR CURRAN: Nebraska's position, but

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having been the product of the one and having seen it

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work, I think reasonably well, I have to stick by it.

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I believe the government is becoming more

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complex and not more simple and I think, with the



 

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