| James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the Executive to intrigue with the Legislature for a re-appointment. Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the executive to intrigue with, the legislature for a reappointment. Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| 1845 - 732 sivua
...Executive. Of those who opposed the longer term, Mr. Bedford, (of Delaware,) "begged 1845.] [August, the committee to consider what the situation of the...to him, or should lose them after his appointment An impeachment," he said, " would be no cure for this evil ; as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the Executive to intrigue with the Legislature for a reappointment. Mr. Bedford was strongly opposed to so long a term...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the executive to intrigue with the legislature for a reappointment. Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the executive to intrigue with the legislature for a reappointment. Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...begged the committee to consider what the situation of ihe country would be, in case the first magistrate should be saddled on it for such a period, and it... | |
| Henry C. Lockwood - 1884 - 504 sivua
...direction of absolutism. It is certainly food for reflection. Mr. Bedford, in the Federal Convention, begged the Committee to consider what the situation...magistrate should be saddled on it for such a period, (seven years was then under discussion), and it should be found on trial that he did not possess the... | |
| George Morgan Browne - 1886 - 212 sivua
...to a reeligibility in the executive. Of those who opposed the longer term, Mr. Bedford of Delaware 'begged the committee to consider what the situation...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment,' he said, ' would be no cure for the evil, as impeachment would reach misfeasance only,... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1893 - 402 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the Executive to intrigue with the Legislature for a re-appointment. Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...to him, or should lose them after his appointment. An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach misfeasance... | |
| Erastus Howard Scott - 1893 - 412 sivua
...and a temptation on the side of the Executive to intrigue with the Legislature for s re-appointment Mr. BEDFORD was strongly opposed to so long a term...qualifications ascribed to him, or should lose them after bis appointment An impeachment, he said, would be no cure for this evil, as an impeachment would reach... | |
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