The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-06
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1920
GAN THE LEGISLATURE CONVENE rrs1F2


 ~ Wo DISTINGUISHED citizens Connecticut have add
 ed their opinions effect that the General Assem- by cannot convene itself Simeon F. Baldwin democrat Is distinguished lawyer and has been of the sa and chief justice of the Supreme Court Roln S. Woodruff re- puhcan is well known business man. He was once gov ernor. Mr. Woodruff has placed himself beyond pale of gnent, he simply delivers himself of dcum, mere ex of opinion, unsupported by authority He says:
 that the General Assembly can con- itself. Ii hasn suchau
 Governor Baldwin is somewhat specific, he at tens discussion of the question: but curous omits to con- pertinent controlling the Fundamental ders of the Constitution of 4818 Here what Governor Baldwin says.-
 colony nor all a time of meeting in either
 ,e governor also attended Assembly of of adopted in 1s1s That consH
 ton did not continue the authority of the governor to order the as sn d % % @ apT - to % aupaan the General Assembly to meet
 But governor
 General AzsernDay a jug w1ha a him the 5ugu i nobody else lift it"
 The Fundamental perhaps the first written in the world Under it Connecticut lived until 1862 when special charter granted by the stuarts which exists that the might refuse the legislature into session. Ordinarily the governor part legislature Governor Baldwin suggests but he always a part of it.
 Section the Fundamental Orders provided that the might the legislature caled the governor neglected it. They might meet choose modera tor and ito do act of which other Gen. Courts may
 In Section 10 it provided, Governor Baldwin may himself should be driven to the expeden of calling the legislature "he should not be part though he always part of it, if it assembled in the usual way
 n beginning not always handle by which legislature might The governor it. It MUST convene stated occasion, Governor says, and might with the governor it. when by his neglect the freemen called it themselves
 is this feature of early Connecticut jurisprudence and innate the importance of the governor
 people the beginning that they should always have legislature by requfng 10 meet other occasions and be reeryng the right to call selves, if the governor should neglect to call ii.
 The Stuart Charter somewhat changed the sembllng the legislature
 It must assemble at the sated periods
 It might be assembled by call of the governor
 legislature itself had power alter its times and places of meetng In this the legislature subst tuted for the who before had to require the avn to meet
 The Constitution of 18is divided the government into three departments judicial executive and legislative; the leg save necessarily first and the others, from the nature of the legislative power in most respects subordinate.
 The governor DO longer part of the legislative power except certain minor purposes the being legislatures combined powers of the state, which separated into judicial executive legislative powers
 Governor Baldwin is right in his assertion 1818) continue the authority of the gover freemen, whenever he liked
 The constitution diminished the authority of the call the legislature by connng to occasions of emergency.
 But the power which taken from the governor was retained to the full with respect to the two other which had always been sanctioned.
 THE LEGISLATURE IS TO MEET ON STATED oCCA- SIGNS.
 IS MEET SUCH OTHER TIMES AS THE GEN ERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL JUDGE NECESSARY.
 The people of Connecticut from the very beginning intended to deprive themselves of their legislative power ting it at the whn of the governor They always provided for the contingency that might be and their commands If they put check the governor when he actually part of the legislative power, how much they likely to put check upon him keeI in their hands, when they had separated the and made it purely executive.
 The governor derives his power of Article