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by the board which could be better vested in a new
department of administration or some new executive agency.
Another problem which seems to me to be revealei
in the statements of most of the delegates in favor of the
retention of the Board of Public Works is a basic distrust
in the Chief Executive of the State. They agree, however,
that the Board of Public Works should not prevent the
Governor from acting, and therefore, they argue, well,
it would be all right with them if we added two new members
to the Board of Public Works so that the Governor would
always have a majority on this particular Board.
Well, there are two questions that arise as a
result of this piece of revelation: First of all, in the
Board of Public Works as it is presently constituted in the
Constitution, while you could argue that if you had two
fine, outstanding public spirited officials in addition to
the governor and the governor were corrupt, they
would certainly check him. But what is there in the Consti-
tution as provided that would protect us from two inept
officials and a good, public spirited Governor? Tliere
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