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constildtional revision today is your Legislature. You
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have a tremendously difficult problem of making represen-
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tative government work in this country. If we can really
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strengthen our Legislatures and get them to the point they
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are able to take an overview about the problems that
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confront a state, then it would seem to me you could feel
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confident in leaving the laying down of policy by general
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statute on something like changes in local boundaries to
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your Legislature to be done under general law.
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It does seem to me that to have the idea built
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into your constitution of a local veto on boundary changes
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as to your basic units runs in the direction of inflex-
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ibility and is of dubious desirability.
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THE CHAIRMAN: On that point, our thought at
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this stage of the thing and in this first report, the power
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to create new counties, cities or other politicel sub-
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divisions will rest with the Legislature emanating from the
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constitution.
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The referendum we speak of, when a new basic
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political subdivision is created, would be a Statewide
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referendum. It would not be restricted only to the
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