Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-10-10

Will OF tue body but entirely the diligence OF the
Committee. when any business could be done
Nor was this all IT was not that the action of the
body must be suspended until any Committee could
report, but until one particular Committee could
report. To one Committee was to be rei,rred
the Bill OF Rights-one other, the Legislative Do
portmen,-to another, the Executive Depart
ment-anothcr, the Judicial--while another Com
mittce was raised, To whom referred all
those paris which the others might not act
there be any thing, therefore which neither belongs
20 the executive the legislative nor the judicial de-
partmen,s, that goes TO this anomalous committee;
80 that IT you take the proposition of the ber from
4ondoun you will have seven committees, all of whom
must report 10 the House. Can you act on any one
subject until the Legislative department settled By
the ConventioR Can the Convention take up the iu-
dical department, distinct from the legislative, or
executive distinct from the legsatve1 And IL would
be VAN Ia meddic with the executive or judicial unit
the Legislative department which according 10 all
principles Of government lay AT tho foundst Of 90.
vernment, should have been sctiled--po ono would
think III beginning structure at the top. The IL.
gisrtlvc scttlcd-the nrxt question would be- how
shall The judicial department. bc am-led how shall
the Governor be- clcc:nd-shal he haze the power Of
appointment IN conjunction with another body or IN
ldepcnden,ly' Until the reports then are H. the Con.
ventiCn cannot act either aivscily. This rrca,
scheme resolves int" this prop0siiion-thut the Con
vent'nn must wait until the Committee on the Lcpis
ure have reported before the whole body could have
any thing Ia do
The nature Of government, who has not discovered
that its powers always distributed into Legislative
Executive and Judicial Departments. And ALTHOUGH
1t Is literally and politically true that these must he
Kept distinct from each other thc!c Will be conec-
ton between them. Like the colours of tho rainbow
nev run INTO cnCh other, and man has not vet found
thut government i'll which these separate branches nrc
not III some measure, connected. What then must
become of the different Committees You form o,e
IN the Executive Depar.mcnt-onc in the Iepislotiva
and ono III the Judicial What duties do Won do
volvc upon the anomalous Committee (, Th;t Com
int'cc must take one or Other OF The Departments
or a viii have nothing to do If il does, take one
what thcn?-you viii then have two distinct bodo,
acIng az once on the subject, and that they
shall laake different reports, is unavoidable rhcir
duties arc Coordinate Iou instruct dTcrcu, bolca
~ the sam" time toGct ON the subject, ard oil
The experience hive derived from other bodice
reaches us that no two Committees will C,-cur As
each OF these Committees rcuorts the Rcport 10 rc
ierrcd to the COMMITTEE on tine Whole-and the
Convention then begins, wbce hc wished them to be-
GIN now.
Again, the Co'nmttceson the executive & lroisls.
tive departments ucting the same subject maxi,
dcrcnt reports. Take. FOR instance the question nj
The veto. The Committee, on The legislative are Of
Opinion. IT,: there snail b. no veto. The rxccu-
I'VE CoH.nittee, report that there shs,, be 4 veto
The report, OF tn" legislative Committee may nav.
been adopted. The mex, day the rouort ot',bt exoc
utve Committee, comes IN. Tn" question of or,,rr
arises, If after deciding upon ti!e question OH the re-
port OF one COMMITTEE" The Convention can take nm
the came SUBJECT. on the repnrt ofanothcr.
Thus the house gets cntan.lcd. Iftlr Convcn-
u can get clear OF the Question OF order ,.. Com
mitee OF the whole can act upon all The reports and
60 over tn subject again and again, as long n.
there S any report to act on Thus there is p
Watc o TINE IN stripping The Convention of all power
at hrSt and distributing Inc different subjects at frs,
among different Committees, and IN cncoun,erno the
RISK OF eOiangIsmcnt, md of Conflicting decisions
And all these are lneupcruble objections. to the
scheme reported. Not one of these applied to his
But there was another objection. Perheps il rniuht
De more III appearance than in ict, but lac felt that il
weighed heavily upon nina bare majority of the
people had dccldedto amend the Constitution! 'TLat
MINORITY was very small in comparison with the whole
ry TIER views into effect. very large minority had
said