Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-10-13

would be prepared,
There is smother cause why substitute
should be adopted. The scheme as reported
d ssects The whole subject into FIVE, six or Sc
ven parts, and distributes it among as many
distinct Committees. What then remains Tor
The body 10 perform ?-uo,hins, either Exreu>
tive, Legislative or Judicial. Those who COM
nose the bedy OF the Convention are lefs 10
stand with their arms folded, until the Com
mittees give them something TO do. Here then
was one advantage Of his substitute. he Con
vention would z, once go 10 work, and make
progress until the whole work is completed, u
his re solution should pass. The task f.r when
they were delegated would thus soon be per-
formed. In The other case tney would have 10
adjourn from day to day, and when they mel
nothing would be before them nor will II de-
pend upon the will Of the body, but entirely on
the diligence of he Commiitee, when any bus
int S. could be done
Nor was this all, i, was no, that he action OF
the body mus, be suspended until any Commit
tee could report, Lu, until one particular Com
mittre could report. 10 one Comitre was 20
be referred he Bill Of Rights-one other The Le-
gislstive Department-io anothe' the Exc u
i've Department another The Judioial-whiic
another committee was raised, 10 whom was
referred all those parts on which the others
might not act, If there be any thing therefore,
which neither belongs 10 the executive, the lie
gis!ative Hor the judicial departments. that
goes 10 this anomalous committee; so that IT you
take the proposition Of the member from Lou :
doua, you will have seven committees, all OF
whom must report to The House. Can you act
on any one spbiec', until the legislative depart
ment is settled by the Convention? Can the
Convention take up the Judicial department,
distinct from the legislative, or the executive
distinct from the legislative? And il would b.
vain 10 NEEDLE with the executive or Judicial
until the legislative department, which cord
ing to all principles Of government. lay at The
foundation Of government, shonld have been
settled; no one would think Of beginning st'uc
tnre at the top. The Legislative settled The
mex, question would be, how shall The Ju"icisi
depar,men, be amended, how shall the Cover
ror BE- elec,ed-shall hr have the power OF APP
pointment in coniune ton with another body "r
independently? Until the reports then are in.
the Convention canno, act on either ad'isedly
This great scheme resolves into this PROPOSE
,ion-tha, the Convention mus, wait until lhr
committee on he Legislature have reported be-
fore the whole hody could have any thing TO 90.
Nor was this all-he was but little acquaipt
ed with the nature of government, who has nn,
red into legislative, Executive and Judicial De
partments. And although il is Ii ally, and
poll lea lily true, tina, these must We kept d>iint
from each other. there will he cunnrxion br-
tween III, m. Like the colours Of III rsinb"",
they run mo each other. and man ha. not yet
found tina; government, in which t"ese srpara'e
branches are not, in some m ASSURE, connected
What then: mus, become # h. different Com
mitess? You form one in the Executive De-
partment-one in the Legislative, and one IN
The Judicial What du'ies do you drvolye upon
the anomalous Commiuee? That Committee
mus, take one or other Of the experimentation
i, will have nothing to do II it does take one,
what then? you will then have 'wo distinc,
bodies acting at oure on he same subject, that
they shall m Ike different rerors, is unavoida-
BILE. Their duties are coordinate. You in
sruc, diffrren, bodies al the ssme time, 10 aci
on the same subject, and all The experience we
have derived frrm other bodies, teaches us tha'
no Two Committees will concur. AS each Of
these Committees report, he report is refer
red 10 the Committee Of the Who'll; and the
Con, ention then begins, where he wished them
10 begin now.
Again the committees on the executive and
Legislative departments acting on the same
subject make different reports. Take 70, in
stance th. question Of the veto. The Commits
tee, the legislative. Of opinion, that there
shall be no veto. I'll. executive Committee, re-.
port that there shall be veto. The report, of
the Legislative Committee may have been adopt
ed. The next day the repor, OF the executive
Committee comes in. The question of order
arises, if after deciding upon the question on the
report, Of one Com nitee, the Convention can
take up the same subject, on the repor, Of ano.
ther.
Thus the house gets entaneled. lfthe Con-
ve't.on can get clear Of the question Of order,
the Committee of the whole can act upon all
The reports, and go over me SUBJECT again and
again, as long as here is any report act on.
Thus there is waste Of lime in ripping he
Convention Of all power a, FIRST and distributing
he different subjecis a. frs, among the differ
eni Committees, and in enc oun'ering The risk of
ENHANCEMENT, and Of conflicting decisions.
And ali these are insupersble objections, to the
scheme reported. Mo, one Of these applied to
his scheme.