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Constitutional Convention Commission (Committee Hearings, Testimony)
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GOVERNOR LANE: Well, the first is, I have no

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prepared statement to make in an overall presentation

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except to call to your attention the fact that I feel

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slightly disqualified because my experience -- there has

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been a longer gap since I was occupied as Governor, for

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one thing, and I discontinued the practice of law when I

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went to Annapolis, because I didn't think a practicing

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lawyer should be Governor of the State. Maybe it wouldn't

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be a conflict of interests, but it would be undesirable.

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I have some thoughts about the questions,

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though, that the Committee has asked, and the first is the

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limitation of Governor to two terms, consecutive terms.

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The change in that was done in my administration in 1947.

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I was prompted to do it by some persuasion, but chiefly

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because of the language of Article 34 of the Declaration

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of Rights which implements it into the statute law, the law

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of our State. I still think it should be limited for two

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reasons. I think one term is not enough, two terms should

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be reasonably sufficient.

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It would take four years for a sitting governor

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to get more information about what his job is going to be



 

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