Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    On Civil Liberty and Self-Government

    of the executive power.

    Theodore Dwight Woolsey

    Translated by Online Library of Liberty edition

    2 min

    1. There shall be an executive council, consisting of twenty-four members.

    2. The electoral assembly of each department nominates a candidate. The legislative body chooses from this general list the members of the executive council.

    3. It shall be renewed each half session of every legislature, in the last months of its session.

    4. The executive council has the management and supervision of the general administration. Its activity is limited to the execution of laws and decrees of the legislative body.

    5. It appoints, but not out of its midst, the highest agents of the general administration of the republic.

    6. The legislative body establishes the number of these agents, and their business.

    7. These agents form no council. They are separated one from the other, and have no relation among themselves. They exercise no personal power.

    8. The executive council chooses, but not from its midst, the foreign agents of the republic.

    9. It negotiates treaties.

    10. The members of the executive council are, in case of violation of duties, accused by the legislative body.

    11. The executive council is responsible for the non-execution of the laws and decrees, and the abuses, of which it does not give notice.

    12. It recalls and substitutes the agents at pleasure.

    13. It is obliged, if possible, to inform the judicial authorities regarding them.

    Source: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/woolsey-on-civil-liberty-and-self-government