Royal Governors

Public Financing of Campaigns Preserves Power By, Of, and For the People

Submitted by Wayne Goodwin on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 6:59am

Back in the 1700s, fear of King-picked Royal Governors and their great powers helped sow strong sentiments against strong State executives. Those seeds sprouted into many revisions of our State constitution, guaranteeing a weak governor and a State government with decentralized executive authority.

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