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Show Bricker Asks Study To See if America Faces Dictatorship DETROIT. A commission to find out whether the United States is rushing toward dictatorship has been suggested by Sen. John Bricker (R.. Ohio). Bricker expressed concern that the federal system was being abandoned aban-doned and with it individual freedoms. free-doms. Bricker's suggestion was made l during a four-man panel discussion j of the federal system at a meeting of state officials. Bricker declared: "Maybe state governments are an expensive, archaic, manifestation o a bygone day and should be dissolved. dis-solved. Heaven forbid such a recommendation rec-ommendation but if they are let's find it out and stop paying Up service ser-vice to the federal system." The proposed commission, patterned pat-terned after the Hoover group which studied the executive branch, would study the division of powers between levels of government. It would also determine appropriate fields of taxation. The senator said the commission should be composed of representatives representa-tives from the three branches of federal government, from the state government and from the people. The discussion brought out that constant growth of national government govern-ment was due chiefly to failure of states to assume responsibilities. |