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person from that district elected to represent the
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people of that district, and it certainly is to me, if
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you're going to not require him to be a resident of that
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district, then you might as well have countywide repre-
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sentation. You might as well let him represent the
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county at large. You don't need subdistricting. You
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don't need districting at all. The purpose of the
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districting was to have the people from that district
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represented by its own people.
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MR. HARVEY: Suppose the people don't care?
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SENATOR JAMES: It also makes the person wore
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available to those he represents.
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MR. HARVEY: Well, if the people elected him,
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this would follow the argument on the other side.
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DELEGATE HANDEL: You can say that for any
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office we are elected to. If the people don't care, we
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can elect a Governor who resides in Alabama.
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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: I think we have seen
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bad trend in national elections, where men who have
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national prominence and can, with continuous resident
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setups, run from one state to another. A resident of
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