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2794. EXECUTIVE, Appointment of.—[further continued] .

Submit the members of
the Legislature to approbation or rejection at
short intervals. Let the Executive be chosen
in the same way, and for the same term,
by those whose agent he is to be; and leave
no screen of a Council behind which to skulk
from responsibility.—
To Samuel Kerchival. Washington ed. vii, 11. Ford ed., x, 39.
(M. 1816)