Senator COONEY (9:34 PM) —I would like to know the basis on which this legislation has been brought on. During my speech in the second reading debate, I talked about two possible sources for the legislation, whether it was for economic principles or human rights. It might have been a combination of both. If it is human rights, and we want to vindicate civil rights and the rule of law, that is the end of the argument on the Thomas Jefferson approach. If it is economic, we ought to have some indication as to whether it has been brought forward on economic principles that have come from a book, whatever book it is—

Senator Sherry —The theory of competition.

Senator COONEY —Yes, the theory of competition: `This is a great idea. We will write the act.' Or was there some evidence in the sense that you might have evidence to write a history book or evidence to run a court case? It would be good to get an answer to that. It might be the economic theory and evidence or it might be all three—civil rights, evidence and theory. We do not need a long dissertation, just a short dissertation of what were the well springs of this legislation, who the person was who was up at night with his or her glass of whisky or his or her pen. What motivated the writing of this?