Executive Branch Overview

Energy in the ______ is a leading character in the definition of good government.

A feeble Executive implies a feeble ______ of the government.

Every man the least conversant in Roman story, knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of ______

It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of ______ against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice

The ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due ______

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever it may be in theory, must be, in practice, a bad ______

The ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive are, first, ______; secondly, duration; thirdly, an adequate provision for its support; fourthly, competent power

Energy in the Executive is a leading ______ in the definition of good government.

The patricians engaged in a perpetual struggle with the plebeians for the preservation of their ancient authorities and ______.

The Consuls were generally chosen out of the former body, were commonly united by the personal interest they had in the defense of the ______ of their order.

After the arms of the republic had considerably expanded the bounds of its empire, it became an established custom with the Consuls to divide the administration between themselves by ______.

One Consul remained at Rome to govern the city and its environs, the other taking the ______ in the more distant provinces.

Wherever two or more persons are engaged in any common enterprise or pursuit, there is always danger of difference of ______.

If it be a public trust or office, in which they are clothed with equal dignity and authority, there is peculiar danger of personal emulation and even ______.

The Decemvirs of Rome were more to be dreaded in their ______ than any ONE of them would have been.

Whenever dissensions happen, they lessen the respectability, weaken the authority, and distract the plans and ______ of those whom they divide.

A ______ to a magistrate are generally nothing better than a clog upon his intentions.

Dissensions might impede or frustrate the most important measures of the government, in the most ______ emergencies of the state.

A council are often the instruments and accomplices of his ______ and are almost always a cloak to his faults.

If the council should be numerous enough to answer the principal end aimed at by the institution, the ______ of the members would be increase expenditures.

Prior to the appearance of the Constitution, I rarely met with an intelligent man from any of the States, who did not admit that the ______ of the executive of this State was one of the best of the distinguishing features of our constitution.

Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no ______ in planning it.

Opposition then becomes, in their estimation, an indispensable duty of ______.

Men of upright, benevolent tempers have too many opportunities of remarking, with ______, to what desperate lengths this disposition is sometimes carried.

Upon the principles of a free government, ______ from the source just mentioned must necessarily be submitted to in the formation of the legislature.

In the legislature, promptitude of decision is oftener an ______ than a benefit.

The differences of opinion, and the jarrings of ______ in that department of the government, though they may sometimes obstruct salutary plans, yet often promote deliberation and circumspection, and serve to check excesses in the majority.

But no favorable circumstances ______ or atone for the disadvantages of dissension in the executive department.

In the conduct of war, in which the energy of the Executive is the ______ of the national security, everything would be to be apprehended from its plurality.

In a republic, every magistrate ought to be personally ______ for their behavior in office.

In the American republic, a council would serve to destroy the necessary responsibility of the Chief ______ himself.

The idea of a council to the Executive has been derived from that maxim of republican ______.

The executive power is more easily ______ when it is ONE.

All multiplication of the Executive is rather dangerous than friendly to ______.

Numbers must be so great as to render ______ difficult, or they are rather a source of danger than of security.

The united credit and ______ of several individuals must be more formidable to liberty, than the credit and influence of either of them separately.

When power is placed in the hands of so small a number of men, as to admit of their interests and views being easily combined in a common ______, by an artful leader, it becomes more liable to abuse.

Scandalous appointments to important offices have been ______.

In tenderness to individuals, I forbear to descend to ______.

In England, the king is a perpetual ______; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the public peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred.

Without this, there would be no ______ whatever in the executive department — an idea inadmissible in a free government.

He is the absolute ______ of his own conduct in the exercise of his office, and may observe or disregard the counsel given to him at his sole discretion.

It is evident from these considerations, that the ______ of the Executive tends to deprive the people of the two greatest securities they can have for the faithful exercise of any delegated power

The ______ of public opinion, which lose their efficacy, as well on account of the division of the censure attendant on bad measures among a number, as on account of the uncertainty on whom it ought to fall

The opportunity of discovering with ______ and clearness the misconduct of the persons they trust, in order either to their removal from office or to their actual punishment in cases which admit of it.

Importance of a strong Executive

Energy in the Executive

Consequences of a weak Executive

Unity in the Executive

Duration of the executive term

Executive support

Competent power of the Executive

Executive responsibility

Decemvirs

Magistrate

Council

Combination

Unity

Plurality of the Executive

Accountability

Impunity

Constitutional Council

Ambiguity of Responsibility

Public Opinion Restraint

Division of Responsibility

Republic

Opposition to unplanned things

Opposition as a duty of self-love

Individual pride and stubbornness

Harmful effects of individual stubbornness in government

Separation of Powers

Division of Government in the Roman Republic

Disagreements in government

Single Executive

Slow decision-making in the legislature

Danger of Difference of Opinion

Influence

Consequences of Disagreement in Power

Harmful disagreements in the executive branch

Importance of a unified executive in wartime

Power Distribution

Impact of Disputes on the Executive

Factions and Division within Society

Stable Coexistence in the Roman Republic

Drawing Duties by Lot

Roman Republic's System of Leadership