The Unicameral Legislature

Alvin Johnson lives with his wife, Vickie, in North Barrington, Illinois, with their black lab, Trinity. He works for the Episcopal Combined Dioceses of Northwestern Pennsylvania and Western New York, volunteers as a chaplain for the local fire department, and is an occasional retreat/prayer day leader at the local Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat Center.

The Unicameral Legislature was first published in 1938. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Here is a concise discussion of the movement for one-house legislatures, which began in Ohio and Oregon in 1912, took new impetus when Nebraska adopted the reform in 1934, and grew to striking proportions in 1937 when forty amendments proposing single chambers were considered in twenty-one states.Professor Johnson describes the historical process by which the two-house form was established in America following early experience with a single house, and he discusses the problems that have given rise to current dissatisfaction with the established system.There is a review of unicameralism in England, Canada, and other countries. This volume offers suggestive information on more phases of the subject than can be found in any other book.