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Show Part III. Acrs RELATING 410 in quefiion. Thefe inconveniences had been particularly felt (ince the heats {truck Sei‘t.VII. To THE Commas. 411 "more common, it feems, than for the up by the Ptamp act. From that moment, " reprefentatives, when. they found the " council a little untraétable at the clofe to be known, or believed, or even to be " of the year, to remind them that May fufpeéted of being inclined to fupport the fupreme authority of parliament, or the confiitutional rights of the king in the provincial government, was fuflicient rea- " was at hand *u" At firtt light it fhould feem evident, that this dependence ofone branch of the legi{lature upon another, tended to defeat all the advantages which {hould be derived from the divifion of the legillative power: that it tended to defeat that very f'tabilityr of contlitution which the Americans tall: {0 much of, and praife {0 highly, Without feeming to know by what means it is fon for exclulion council *. from the provincial Officers who, by their parti- cular frinflions and their official know- ledge of public bufinefs, were almoft neCClTEIl‘Y to that body, confidered as a coun- cil of fiate, were excluded: though the charter fuppofed them entitled to a {eat to be effected; becaufe it tended to de- So much prive the intermediate branch of the legi~ flature of that power of refiflance which it fhould employ alternately againfi the pre~ ponderance of either of the other two :-by depriving it of that free agency, with- there, in virtue of their offices. did thefe popular ele'c‘lions weaken the au- thority of the counfellors; fo thoroughly dependent did it render them on the houfe of reprefentativcs, "that nothing was out which that power cannot exif't; and * See proofs of this in Bernard's Letters, p. 98, 99, 100, 101, and in Hutchinfon's and OliVer's .‘V‘ See Hutchinfon's and Oliver's Letters, p. 32. Letters, p. 20, 21. 0f " more |
