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 RECORDS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION 6 9 Friday MADISON July 20 simple in the whole Kingdom. Yet Charles II was bribed by Louis XIV. The Executive ought therefore to be impeach- able for treachery; Corruptlng his electors, and incapacity were other causes of impeachment. For the latter he should be punished not as a man, but as an officer, and punished only by degradation from his office. This Magistrate is not the King but the prime-Minister. The people are the King. When we make him amenable to Justice however we should take care to provide some mode that will not make him de- pendent on the Legislature. (It was moved & 2ded. to postpone the question of impeach- ments which was negatived. Mas. & S. Carolina only being ay.y* On ye. Question, Shall the Executive be removeable on impeachments ? Mas. no. Ct. ay. N.J. ay. Pa. ay. Del. ay. Md. ay. Va. ay. N. C. ay. S.C. no. Geo-ay- [Ayes- 8; noes- 2.] "Executive to receive fixed compensation, Agreed to 11em. COil- "(to be paid out of the National Treasury" agreed to, N. Jersey only in the negative.)  Mr. Gerry & Govr. Morris moved 'that the Electors of the Executive shall not be members of the Natl. Legislature, nor officers of the U. States, nor shall the Electors themselves be eligible to the (supreme) Magistracy." 5 Agreed to nero. con. Docr. McClurg asked whether it would not be necessary, before a Committee for detailing the Constitution should be appointed, to determine on the means by which the Executive. is to carry the laws into effect, and to resist combinations agst. them. Is he to have a military force for the purpose, or to have the command of the Militia, the only existing force that can be applied to that use? As the Resolutions now u Taken �rom Journal. UMadison orlgnall� had added to preceding question "to be paid out o� the Natl treasury" and had recorded the whole as agreed to unanimously. I-Ie was led by fogrnal into making the changes incorporated in the text. See above note u This motion by Gerry and Morris is placed earlier in the Journal.

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