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such a system might be detrimental to liberty has no foundation, so 

 long as the peop'.e chose the legislature. On the other hand, this 

 system has the. great advantage of laying responsibility for good 

 government directly upon the majority party in the legislature. 

 The governor should choose the heads of all executive and admin- 

 istrative departments, and should remove them at will. This would 

 make him completely responsible for the carrying out of public 

 policy and the management of public business ; and any failure on his 

 part would be reflected by popular pressure upon the legislature to 

 select a better chief executive. Such a system of reorganizing 

 state government according to business principles would be very 

 unpopular with professional politicans, who profit by. the present 

 system which enables them to avoid responsibility; but it would 

 place control over government actually, as well as nominally, in 

 the hands of the people. 



