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the Governor must seq that the laws are faithfully executed
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and, if he is not doing that, then somebody can jump him
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for not doing his job.
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On the other hand, the thing that bothered me
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most, and this was true back during the Sobeloff discussion;
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although this was not -- maybe I was the only one worrying
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about it at the time, -- since we've had legislative bodies
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the one powerful force of the legislative body is the power
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of purchases, that is to say, you cannot spend any more
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than this amount and to tell them that they must Appropriate
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X amount is an inhibition. I've always felt that even if
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this were adjudicated, that the basic constitutional
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authority — let me put it this way, because the Attorney
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General has repeatedly upheld the power of the legislature
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to condition appropriations, to put provisos on, to reduce
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them in one way or another or to restrict them.
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1. feel that if, for example, the legislature
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did not appropriate that amount which the school people
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say the law requires, that this is still a constitutional
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prerogative of the legislature. Nobody can —
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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't know who has —
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