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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION OI lVednesday MADISON lgust I$ resulted from a misapplication' of the adage that the parlia- ment was the palladium of liberty. Where the Executive was really formidable, King and Tyrant, were naturally asso- ciated in the minds of people; not legislature and tyranny. But where the Executive was not formidable, the two last were most properly associated. After the destruction of the King in Great Britain, a more pure and unmixed tyranny sprang up in the parliament than had been exercised by the monarch. He insisted that we had not guarded agst. the danger on this side by a sufficient self-defensive power either to the Executive or Judiciary department- Mr Rutlidge was strenuous agst postponing; and com- plained much of the tediousness of the proceedings. Mr Elseworth held the same language. We grow more & more skeptical as we proceed. If we do not decide soon, we shall be unable to come to any decision. The question for postponement passed in the negative: (Del: & Maryd only being in the affirmative.} to Mr. Williamson moved to change"  of each house" into  as requisite to overrule the dissent of the President. He saw no danger in this, and preferred giving the power to the Presidt. alone, to admitting the Judges into the business of legislation. Mr. Wilson zds. the motion; referring to and repeating the ideas of Mr. Carroll. On this motion for {. (instead of two thirds; it passed in the affirmative) n N-H- no- Mss. no. Ct. (ay} N- J. no. Pens. divd. Del- ay. Md. ay. Va. ay. N. C. ay. S.C. aT. Geo. no. [Ayes -- 6; noes -- 4; divided -- T.]  Mr. (Madison,} observing that if the negative of the Presi- dent was confined to bills; it would be evaded by acts under the form and name of Resolutions, votes &c- proposed that or resolve should be added after "bill" in the beginning of sect I$. with an exception as to votes of adjournment &c. o Taken from Journal. n Revised from Journal. a Madison originally recorded Connectlout's vote as 'no", which made the total vote a negative. The vote was changed to conform to Journal.

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