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| Essay. | Page | |
| A. by vesting the authority in two or more magistrates, | No. LXIX. | 488 |
| B. by making the authority subject to the coöperation and control of a council, | 488 | |
| a. plurality of magistrates considered, | 489 | |
| b. the controlling authority of a council considered, | 491 | |
| c. the argument reviewed and concluded, | 491 | |
| 1. plurality removes responsibility and destroys the force of popular opinion, | 492 | |
| 2. it tends to concealment of wrong-doing, | 492 | |
| 3. councils are unnecessary where the magistrate is personally responsible, | 494 | |
| 4. plurality in the Executive will be more dangerous to liberty, | 495 | |
| 5. plurality will be more expensive, | 496 | |
| ii. duration in office of the Executive, | LXX. | 496 |
| i. it affects his personal firmness in the employment of his constitutional powers, | 496 | |
| A. more interest will be felt in that which is permanent, | 497 | |
| B. subserviency to popular impulses not desirable in the Executive, | 497 | |
| C. subserviency to the humors of the legislature equally improper, | 498 | |
| D. independence of the several departments of government necessary, | 499 | |
| E. shortness of the term of office will affect the independence of the Executive, | 500 | |
| F. a term of four years compared with longer and shorter terms, | 500 | |
| ii. it affects the stability of his system of administration, | LXXI. | 502 |
| A. the term "administration of government" defined, | 502 | |
| B. the heads of foreign, finance, military, and naval departments are only "assistants or deputies of the chief magistrate," and ought to be appointed by him and be subject to his superintendence, | 502 | |
| C. changes in the Executive will produce, primarily, changes in these departments, and, ultimately, changes in the system of administration, | 503 | |
| iii. the reëligibility of the Executive considered, | 503 | |
| A. the opposition thereto considered, | 503 |
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