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operating in the hopes that they can get these 276
commissions and bureaus and boards and agencies and every-
thing possible into somewheres around 16 to 18 different
principal departments.
With trying to give the Governor this power and
spell it out that he may go ahead and organize, we have also
tried to make sure that the principal departments were headed
by a single executive, with the exception of the school
board, and, of course, the school, the Department of
Bducation Board and any quasi-judicial board that might be
involved.
I think that we have recognized here, and there
is no point in my being very long-winded about it, that we
are moving in the right direction to a strong Governor and
he will ultimately be checked by both the legislature and
the judicial, but I do want to point out that one of the
foremost authorities has maintained that the biggest probleiji
with state government is that over the years, the Governor-
ship has not developed as fast as it might, and William
Young puts it in a very complete quote, I think, that the
development of the Governorship has proceeded from the



 
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