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construct a strong, virile Legislative Department, perhaps
as strong as any in the country. We have increased their
powers substantially.
I say to you, if we now back away from the con-
struction of a strong Executive, the only thing we will
have done, we will have constructed a three-legged stool,
only two legs of which are of the same length.
Those decisions are behind us. This decision
is in front of us.
If we believe what people who are students of
this field tell us, we must believe that a strong Executive:
is necessary.
Three chief arguments are advanced by the
Minority in their Report for the continuance of the status
quo. First, they talk about the elected Comptroller being
a watchdog for the Governor. There is some apparent inherent
belief that Maryland will for the future have corrupt high
it
public officials; that/is necessary in order to protect
against this to provide somebody who can look over his
' shoulder and see that he is constantly kept up to the mark.
They concede that all of Maryland's governors of the