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1849. COUNCIL, Shelter of a.—

Responsibility
is a tremendous engine in a free government.
Let the Executive [of Virginia] feel the whole weight of it then, by taking
away the shelter of his Executive Council.
Experience both ways has already established
the superiority of this measure.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. iii, 315. Ford ed., v, 315.
(Pa., 1791)