 In these three states, small groups immersed in Wolfensberger's ideas won the competition to plan their state's system.Particularly in Georgia, where circumstances provided most opportunities to implement his ideas, his consultation gave the "Multi-component Schema" a pre-publication test bed as a guide to planning and implementation.In the other 47 states it was taken for granted that the Protection and Advocacy System would be a kind of legal practice, staffed with attorneys and para-legal advocates who would wield the growing number of laws, regulations and court cases that acknowledged the rights of people with developmental disabilities to assert those rights in individual situations and class action lawsuits.