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Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3: John Adams to Roger Sherman

Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3 Document 45 John Adams to Roger Sherman [20?] July 1789 Works 6:432--36 There is another sense and another degree in which the executive is blended with the legislature, which is liable to great and just objection; which excites alarms, jealousies, and apprehensions ...

Republican Government: John Adams to Roger Sherman

4 Republican Government CHAPTER 4 | Document 29 John Adams to Roger Sherman 18 July 1789 Works 6:429--31 In my letter of yesterday I think it was demonstrated that the English government is a republic, and that the regal negative upon the laws is essential to that republic. Because, without it ...

Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3: Roger Sherman to John Adams

Article 2, Section 2, Clauses 2 and 3 Document 46 Roger Sherman to John Adams July 1789 Adams Works 6:440--42 I received your letter of the twentieth instant. I had in mine, of the same date, communicated to you my ideas on that part of the constitution, limiting the president's power of negativing ...

Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2: Roger Sherman to John Adams

Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 Document 17 Roger Sherman to John Adams July 1789 Adams Works 5:440--41 It appears to me the senate is the most important branch in the government, for aiding and supporting the executive, securing the rights of the individual states, the government of the United ...

Article 1, Section 7, Clauses 2 and 3: Roger Sherman to John Adams

Article 1, Section 7, Clauses 2 and 3 Document 13 Roger Sherman to John Adams 20 July 1789 Adams Works, 6:438--39 But what I principally have in view, is to submit to your consideration the reasons that have inclined me to think that the qualified negative given to the executive by our constitution ...

Article 1, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2: Records of the Federal Convention

... or State, to a candidate of superior merit residing out of it. Less merit also in a resident would be more known throughout his own State. Mr. Sherman favored an election of one member by each of the State Legislatures, Mr. Pinkney moved to strike out the "nomination by the State Legislatures. ...

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3: Records of the Federal Convention

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 Document 2 Records of the Federal Convention [1:35; Madison, 30 May] The following Resolution being the 2d. of those proposed by Mr. Randolph was taken up. viz--"that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution ...

Article 2, Section 1, Clause 1: Records of the Federal Convention

... was not for giving him the power of war and peace. A single man would feel the greatest responsibility and administer the public affairs best. Mr. Sherman said he considered the Executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will of the Legislature into effect, that the person ...

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 1: Records of the Federal Convention

... ;that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States" being taken up, Mr. Sherman opposed the election by the people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people he said, immediately should have as little ...

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 16: Records of the Federal Convention

... , nor could it accommodate itself to the local genius of the people. It must be vain to ask the States to give the Militia out of their hands. Mr Sherman 2ds. the motion. Mr Dickenson. We are come now to a most important matter, that of the sword. His opinion was that the States never would nor ought ...

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