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rather than going into areas or metropolitanism or regional-
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ism. We're holding onto the county, city as the basic
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political unit with a flexability to the legislature to
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create new units in the form of other civil divisions,
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subdivisions. However, it seems to me clear that if the
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purpose of meeting the responsibility of local legisla-
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tion is met at the local level and the General Assembly
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is freed of that responsibility, then a unicameral legis-
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lature is all that is needed because, as you will be able
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to pinpoint the responsibility for your local legislation
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of the man who is supposed to act upon it, similarly,
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you will be able to pinpoint the responsibility for
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Statewide problems on those persons that you send down
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there to act upon them.
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THE CHAIRMAN: If I cut you short here, it's
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because we want to make sure we move along and, Hal, I
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certainly appreciate your comments. Let's open up —
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SENATOR CURRAN: As a followup on that, let
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me throw out, with the unicameral system, if we had it
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and if it were on the Supreme Court guideline of one man-
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one vote and if we further went into the idea that every
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