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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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JUDGE ADKINS: Fine. Well, we have provided

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you with a list of questions of matters that are under

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consideration by our Committee, and I think we would be

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happy to have you comment on any or all of those questions

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that you feel you would like to comment on. We are, for

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example, interested in whether. or not you feel that the

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two-term limitation should be continued.

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GOVERNOR TAWES: Yes. Well, my answer to that

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would be Yes. I think the two consecutive term limita-

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tion should be continued. I think four years is too lit-

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tle, too short a time for a governor, to properly put

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through his entire program that he anticipates putting

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through when he assumes office.

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Many states throughout the nation have two-year

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terms with no limit to the number "of terms a governor may

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succeed himself. Many of them have a limit of one four-

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year terra and in discussion these limitations of one four-

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year term with governors throughout the South, particularly

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where this exists, they feel that four years is just too

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short a time.

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Now, in Texas, Governor Connelly had a con-



 

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