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governor. Hence, if the 25 year age minimum for service asi
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a senator is continued in the new Constitution, it is at i
least theoretically possible that an individual under
30 years of age might succeed to the office and serve as
governor.
The last qualification for service as governor
contained in this section is more absolute. It provides \
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terms shall be eligible to hold that office until one full '
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term has intervened. This limitation is substantially
the same as the provision added to the present Constitution
by a 1949 amendment. I
The committee gave serious consideration to
whether there should be any restriction on the number of
successive terms a governor may serve. It recognizes the
two term limit may preclude the most qualified candidate
from serving as governor, and may deprive the electorate
from selecting the candidate of their choice. However,
the committee was swayed in favor of the two term limit
by two other arguments.
First, political experience indicates that it |
