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business to do, but that which is proposed, either by the
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Governor or by legislation which is subsequently introduced
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and which must be financed. So that we have in the budget
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process something that is of so fundamental a character,
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I can't stress it too much, because as the government
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grows larger and more complex, by its very nature we are
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going to have to continue to strengthen the executive
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capability to run it and, when we strengthen executive
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capability to run the Executive Branch, by the same token,
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we've got to have certain safeguards.
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These safeguards are in terras of legislative
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review of the executive's budget proposal. For that reason
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whileit might be wholly desirable, and I think as a general
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principle it would be, that the Constitution be as unwordy
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a document as we could have. Nevertheless, we want to make
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sure that what we put in it will provide the people with
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adequate safeguards.
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Over the years, I used to start out — and this
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is particularly true not only for Constitutions, but for
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charter drafting, the idea that we ought to have as little
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in them as possible; but, over the years, possibly because
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