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DELEGATE MORGAN: I do not believe
it does.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Chairman Morgan,
going back to the question that Delegate
Boyles asked you concerning eligibility
which is found in lines 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13
of the first unnumbered section, I note
that those words are identical to the words
in the judiciary article establishing the
eligibility for judges and I was under the
assumption and you correct me if I am
wrong about this, that it was the intention
of the Committee to have those two sec-
tions dovetail one with the other. Is that
not true?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I just cannot
answer that. I do not know.
THE Cli AIRMAN: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Can I say that hav-
ing helped a little bit in putting these
words tog-ether, that it is true?
(Laughter.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I am sure that
the Committee on Style and Drafting will
make sure that the two provisions will con-
form.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: Mr. Chairman, in
section 4.02 the governor is limited to two
consecutive terms and in your commentary
on the attorney general, you say no limita-
tion on the number of successive terms for
his office.
I was wondering about the rationale be-
hind that, because if he is a very good
vote-getter he may have the job for life.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: There is no
limitation in the existing Constitution and
the Committee just provided no limitation
in the proposed Constitution.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: I did not know we
were determining our actions solely on
what is in the present Constitution.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is that a question,
Delegate Gill?
DELEGATE GILL: Yes. I -want to know
the rationale behind it. Was it just because
it was not in the present office?
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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: There is no
limitation on the terms of the comptroller
and there is no limitation on the terms of
the attorney general.
There was no proposal before our Com-
mittee that the attorney general and comp-
troller be limited in the number of terms
they could serve.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: Did the Committee
consider putting the limitation on it the
same as for governor?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: It did not.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: My next question
you anticipated. It was not even mentioned
about the comptroller so if he was a good
vote-getter he could also have a job for
life. What is the rationale behind that?
THE CHAIRMAN: I am so sorry, the
Chair does not understand your question-
ing. Did you say the comptroller when
elected would have a job for life?
DELEGATE GILL: If he is a very good
vote-getter.
THE CHAIRMAN: You mean there is
no limitation on the number of terms to
which he might be elected?
DELEGATE GILL: That is right,
Amendment No. 8 to E B does not mention
it at all.
THE CHAIRMAN: What is your ques-
tion to Delegate Morgan?
DELEGATE GILL: I wonder why the
Committee did not consider puting a limita-
tion on the term of the attorney general
and comptroller when they definitely put a
limitation on the governor and lieutenant
governor in the constitution.
THE CHAIRMAN: Or to turn it around,
why the Committee put a limitation on the
terms of the governor without a similar
limitation on the terms of the others?
DELEGATE MORGAN: The suggestion
was just never made to the Committee and,
as a matter of fact, as you know, the
Committee initially provided that the elec-
tive office of the attorney general and the
elective office of comptroller should be done
away with in the constitution and it was as
a result of the vote of the Committee of the
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