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be made also an integral part of the legislature. This, I know, is liable to
objections; and, if you please, you may make him only president of the
council, as in Connecticut. But as the governor is to be invested with the
executive power, with consent of council, I think he ought to have a negative upon the legislative. If he is annually elective, as he ought to be, he
will always have so much reverence and affection f