A Singular Proviso
This In A Country Boasting So Much Of Freedom!
For no speech or
debate in either House, shall the legislator be called in question
in any other place.
The legislature assembles on the first Tuesday
in January, and sits for about three months. Its seat is at
Albany.
The executive power, Article IV., is to be vested in a Governor and
a Lieutenant-Governor, both of whom shall be chosen for two years.
The Governor must be a citizen of the United States, must be thirty
years of age, and have lived for the last four years in the State.
He is to be commander-in-chief of the military and naval forces of
the State, as is the President of those of the Union. I see that
this is also the case in inland States, which one would say can
have no navies. And with reference to some States it is enacted
that the Governor is commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and
militia, showing that some army over and beyond the militia may be
kept by the State. In Tennessee, which is an inland State, it is
enacted that the Governor shall be "commander-in-chief of the army
and navy of this State, and of the militia, except when they shall
be called into the service of the United States." In Ohio the same
is the case, except that there is no mention of militia. In New
York there is no proviso with reference to the service of the
United States.
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