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Show 408 ACTS RELATING Part Ill. might be to the model of the eonfiitution which obtains in the mother-country. SetthL gillative. TO THE COLONIES. 409 But as we have before {aid to this ellential defect in the confiitution of this government, the ait before us has Had this object been in View, it‘ is pro- applied no remedy whatever. bable, that what f0 many governors had recommended would have been complied with. Two councils would then have been appointed: one a conflituent branch of the lcgillature, equally independent of the governor and the peoples/'5‘: The other The election of this council by the houfc of rcprefentatives had been frequently complained of by dillerent governors They had found it highly inconvenient, that what ought to be the middle fhould be fubordinate to the lower branch of the a council of Rate, to be appointed, and removcable either directly by the king, or by the governor in the name of the king. And that this laft council might be able to {upply infirufiion relative to every department of adminiftration, we might have expected to have feen it compofed promifcuoufly of men taken from every department; of fome in military, of others in judicial f'rations;~ of others legiflature. And {till more fo, that thoie who were to advii'e and allill the governor in the execution of the laws, and in the maintenance of the authority of Great Britain, were dependent on that very afienibljy, which was ever ready to coun- terael thofe laws, and call that authority * " A true middle legiflative power, appoint,,! r1. ' " (.u by the lung. for Izfi, and ftpamz‘y from l the 4" " in this province (which though royal in the appointment of a governor, is democratieal in all its other parts, efpccially in what isfrc» gmm‘ly Ngrrttm', the appointment of the mafia-1) the {prings of government are is relaxed, that they can never recover their force again by any " privy council." power of their own." Bernard's Letters, p. 4.3. again in each of the two branches of le- Bernard's Letters, p. 36. giflativa . "I -m, "HP/la in - Il'lllll |