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THE CHAIRMAN: I understand it doesn't resolve
I that question.
I am just trying to resolve the one.
Delegate Henderson.
DELEGATE HENDERSON: Mr. Chairman, Fellow Dele-
gates, the discussion on this particular amendment has takeh
a wide range and it suggests that if it was the intention ;
i that the legislature, that is, the General Assembly might
'. choose which powers it would assign to the Lieutenant Gover
nor or to the Governor, we have really created a two-headedl
monster here. '
The difficulty that I see lies not so much in th
question as to the possibility of a veto, but in the first ,
sentence here, which says that there shall be a Lieutenant ;
Governor to perform such duties as may be prescribed by law,
' and such other duties as may be delegated to him by the I
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.! Governor.
i It seems to me that puts the cart before the
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horse. I
' What we are creating this office for is to
provide the Governor with an assistant who may help him in
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