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THE CHAIRMAN; Very well.
Delegate Wiedemeyer.
DELEGATE WIEDEMEYER: Mr. Chairman, I would like
to ask Delegate Chabot, and I may have to state my conclusion
in asking the question, but under Section 4.14, veto by the
Governor, we find that all bills passed by the General
Assembly shall be subject to veto by the Governor.
Now, there is not a duty. It is a clear power
given the Governor and no one else other than the Governor
or the Acting Governor, which under other provisions, the
Acting Governor would take over, and an expressed power, an
extraordinary power, expressly given to the Governor or the
Acting Governor is a vastly different thing from a duty pre
scribed by law, and I would think that if the legislature
attempted to give anyone else the power of veto over bills
as an extraordinary power, that in view of Section 4.14,
such delegation by the legislature would be clearly
unconstitutional, in view of the provisions of 4.14, and my
answer is, can you not agree with that conclusion?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE CHABOT: I assume that Delegate