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understanding the Governor in turn will submit the

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proposals contained in the presentment to the Legislature

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for their consideration. It has worked well for us in

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New Jersey and we had a number of presentments. The

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result was we came out with one of the Shortest

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Constitutions of all the Constitutions in the country,

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approximately 10,000 words.

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I would like to touch on the three branches of

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government briefly and I am certainly not, I hope you will

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understand this, not presuming to pose as an authority,

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although the task of Constitution-making is near and dear

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to my heart, not only as a former Governor, but as

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President of the National Municipal League, which has been

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developing model Constitutions over the years.

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The Legislative Branch of the Government.

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Appropriate terms should be established for the Legislative

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branch of the government so they are not running all the

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time. We have the unenviable record of having our House of

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Assembly, our lower House, running every year. So that

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you can imagine where their minds were when the Governor

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was trying to get a program through. They were wondering