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We don't tell the executive branch that they ca
do anything they want; we don't tell the Governor that
he can set up his executive department, put them into
effect, and that is it. We say that he can only do this
pursuant to law passed by the General Assembly.
Take the legislative branch: We don't say
that anything that they want to put into a law will become
law. We say that proposal of the General Assembly must be
subject to veto of the Governor.
Here we really are taking a halfway measure,
saying that the Court of Appeals shall have power, but
that power shall be shared also by the legislative branch.
I would submit to Judge Henderson that it is much easier
to get such men to go into a room to overturn a decision
of lbO or 180 members of the General Assembly than it
is to get that group to go and overturn a rule of the
Court of Appeals.
I think we have got to be concerned about over-
loading power in one branch of the government, I would
hope this amendment would be approved by this group.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate desire to



 
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