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Sherman's Speech on Councils

Advising the President

Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Sherman's Speech on Councils’ in Lindsay Chervinsky, Advising the President, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2017), item 144.

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Sherman's Speech on Councils

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In a debate over the number of people who should form the executive magistracy, Roger Sherman of Connecticut agreed with James Wilson that there should be a one-person executive. To Wilson's observation that most of the state executives were made up of a single governor, however, Sherman added that most of the state governors had elected councils to advise them.

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Virginia Plan [Resolutions] - Seventh Resolution (Executive Branch): Pinckney/Wilson Move for Single Person Executive was debated on 04 June 1787