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the Committee accepts that proposition.
Thirdly, assuming what cannot really be assumed,
that the provision could be judicially enforceable, the
legislature could very easily comply with it. It could
adopt an innocuous Code of Ethics for itself and an empty
limited conflict of interest legislation for other elected
officials and then take the position it had carried out its
Constitutional duty.
Fourth, like so many of the suggestions that have
come before this Convention the proposal demeans the legis-
lative power. We don't write into the Constitution the
suggestion or admonition or an exhortation that the Governor
execute the laws of this State wisely and fairly, or that
the courts interpret them justly and equitably, why then
must we urge and prod the legislature to perform a particular
act in a field however compelling that field may be.
I think in the long run we have to trust the
General Assembly to carry out its duties, so long as the
General Assembly is the repository of the legislative
power, they should be permitted to exercise that power and
when they don't, then we turn them out at the next election,