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automatically after forty-five days after adjourning

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sine die to consider veto messages. To the extent it

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was humanly possible for us to uo so on the basis of the

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then available knowledge, we eliminated the vest' pocket

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veto, and the Governor had to accept up to every issue

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and say yes, I am going to sign the bill or no, I am not

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going to sign the bill and tiiis is the reason I am not

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going to sign the bill or I am sending the bill back with

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a conditional veto and if you will incorporate the following,

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spelled out in the veto message, I will probably sign it.

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In New Jersey our greatest problem was the

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problem of the judiciary. We had every known court that

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you could think of. We were one of the last states to

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give up the Court of Chancery that we had inherited from

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our mother country. It can be said justice delayed is

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justice denied and in New Jersey it was possible to delay

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justice for a very long time while appeals were taken from

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one court to another.

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we had the Court of Errors and Appeals which

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was higher than the Supreme Court for wnich provision was

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made for lay judges on the Court of Errors and Appeals, this