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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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questions that you have propounded. 1 have my own pre-

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pared answers, and if you would like to hear those ond

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then ask ne at the end of each one any other thing you want

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to ask me, I will be glad to give you my answer.

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JUDGE ADKINS: I think that is an excellent

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way to proceed.

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MAYOR McKELDIN: The first question that was

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submitted to me is, Should the restriction limiting a

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governor to two consecutive terms be continued? I don't

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know if I could give a definite answer to that. I remem-

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ber when we enacted that, I talked with Governor Dewey

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in New York at the time. He said, Why in the world would

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you pass such a law as that? If you have a good man, you

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want to keep him, don't you? If you have a bad man, you

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can get rid of him. Why would you want to get rid of him

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at the end of two terms? Well, I said, We feel that maybe

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there will be a dynasty if one man stays for fifteen years

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or sixteen years as Governor Ritchie for fifteen years,

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and he will build up such an organization that it probably

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would be very difficult to get rid of him, even though late

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on he turned out not to be as good as he was in the begin-



 

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