Perry v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The legislative process for the enactment of law established by our Constitution contemplates the formulating of proposed laws by the Houses of the General Assembly, and the submission of a proposed law to the Governor for his approval or disapproval. In effect, the Governor and the Houses of the General Assembly are a legislative team, but each has separate and distinct functions in the enactment of laws. It is the function of the Senate and House to agree upon the form and substance of a law, and, generally speaking, it is the function of the Governor to act as a check upon the final enactment of that law. In doing so, he must approve or disapprove it as a whole for he has no constitutional power to alter the content of a proposed law submitted to him, except as to appropriations of money.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turnbull v. Fink

2. “The Governor shall have power to disapprove of any item or items of any bill making appropriations of money, embracing distinct items, and the part or parts of the bill approved shall be the law, and the item or items of appropriation disapproved shall be void, unless repassed according to the rules and limitations prescribed for the passage of other bills, over the Executive veto.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turnbull v. Fink

3. “Provisions in regard to his power to veto separate items over appropriation bills, have been adopted into all the new Constitutions, and the absence of it in the Federal Constitution is a fact greatly to be lamented. But that, perhaps, is a little aside from the subject of this amendment which I want to discuss.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turnbull v. Fink