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Cite as: Dr Nicholas Cole, ‘An accountable executive’ in N. P. Cole, Grace Mallon and Kat Howarth, The Creation of the Electoral College, Quill Project at Pembroke College (Oxford, 2016), item 65.

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The Creation of the Electoral College

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An accountable executive

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Even if not removable by state legislatures, this proposal did provide for removal under certain circumstances -- though the details of procedure were not specified. Compared to the standard that made it in to the final constitution, this initial proposal set out the rather lower standard of 'malpractice or neglect of duty'.

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Virginia Plan [Resolutions] - Seventh Resolution (Executive Branch): Williamson/Davie Impeachment Wording was proposed on 02 June 1787

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