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improvement in which in the middle part of the 19th
Century the state invested so heavily and so unwisely.
All of the modern powers exercised by the Boarc,
every one, as I understand it, were granted to them
by the legislature, so that to call this a Constitutional
Board, a Board of Constitutional establishment is
really a misnomer; it is a Board which as mentioned was
set up in the Constitution for an entirely different pur-
pose and which has now been used as a catch-all
in various categories by the legislature over the years
and I suggest that one possible reason why this Board
has been utilized may have been political, because since
the turn of the century we have had four Republican
Governors, but the legislature throughout all of those
governorships has been democratic and so has the
Comptroller, so that the check and balance which was
properly set up to continue the democratic establishment
in running the state, it has been done all these years.
But it has resulted in factional strife by dividing the
executive authority, and I suggest resulted in a political
impact in that direction also somewhat what you might