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To: Phillyred

I kind of like the presidential tribunal. Gets rid of a lot of the megalomaniac tendencies of the office.


11 posted on 02/28/2014 12:49:36 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer; Ruy Dias de Bivar

The Framers actually discussed multiple executives. Governor Edmund Randolph of VA proposed it. Given our late difficulties with George III, there was latent fear of a single executive. But, early in the convention a single executive, (not president) was decided by a 7-3 vote.


19 posted on 02/28/2014 1:46:58 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V.)
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