Sherman's Speech on Councils
Commentary
In a debate over the number of people who should form the executive magistracy, Roger Sherman of Connecticut agreed with James Wilson that there should be a one-person executive. To Wilson's observation that most of the state executives were made up of a single governor, however, Sherman added that most of the state governors had elected councils to advise them.
Associated event
Virginia Plan [Resolutions] - Seventh Resolution (Executive Branch): Pinckney/Wilson Move for Single Person Executive was debated
on 04 June 1787
Approved for publication
None
Sherman's Speech on Councils by Grace Mallon (gracemallon)
Advising the President
Cite as: Grace Mallon, ‘Sherman's Speech on Councils’ in Lindsay Chervinsky, Advising the President, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2017), item 144.