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#printNow that you know what word is wrong, you still have to findit in one of the memo files so you can correct it. One wayis to use the text editor "ex", but that is rather slow. Betteris to use the pattern-finding program "grep", which looks througha set of files to find a particular word. To find all occurrencesof "glop" in the files tom, dick and harry, you need only type grep 'glop' tom dick harryThe first thing is the word that grep is to search for;any remaining names are file names, which are searched in order.The quotes around the word to be searched for aren'talways necessary, but it's a good habit to use themanyway. Later on we'll see some examples where they are reallyneeded.Use grep to find the memo file that contains the spelling error,and type "answer name", where "name" is the file you decide on.#create memo1(This comes from a federalist paper by alexander hamilton.) It has been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expectedfrom the cooperation of the Senate, in the businessof appointments, that it would contribute to thestability of the administration. The consent of that bodywould be necessary to displace as well as to appoint. Achange of the Chief Magistrate, therefore, would not occasionso violent or so general a revolution in the officersof the government as might be expected if he were thesole disposer of offices. Where a man in any station hadgiven satisfactory evidence of his fitness for it, a newPresident would be restrained from attempting a changein favor of a person more agreeable to him by the apprehensionthat a discountenance of the Senate might frustratethe attempt, and bring some degree of discreditupon himself. Those who can best estimate the value ofa steady administration will be most disposed to prize aprovision which connects the official existence of publicmen with the approbation or disapprobation of that bodywhich, from the greater permanency of its own composition,will in all probability be less subject to inconstancythan any other member of the government. To this union of the Senate with the President, in thearticle of appointments, it has in some cases been suggestedthat it would serve to give the President an undueinfluence over the Senate, and in others that it wouldhave an opposite tendency - a strong proof that neithersuggestion is true. To state the first in its proper form is to refute it. Itamounts to this: the President would have an improperinfluence over the Senate, because the Senate wouldhave the power of restraining him. This is an absurdity interms. It cannot admit of a doubt that the entire powerof appointment would enable him much more effectuallyto establish a dangerous empire over that body than amere power of nomination subject to their control. Let us take a view of the converse of the proposition:"the Senate would influence the executive." As I havehad occasion to remark in several other instances, the indistinctnessof the objection forbids a precise answer. Inwhat manner is this influence to be exerted? In relationto what objects? The power of influencing a person, inthe sense in which it is here used, must imply a power ofconferring a benefit upon him. How could the Senateconfer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employingtheir right of negative upon his nominations? If itbe said they might sometimes gratify him by an acquiescencein a favorite choice, when public motives might dictate adifferent conduct, I answer that the instances in which thePresident could be personally interested in the result wouldbe too few to admit of his being materially affected by the#create memo2compliances of the Senate. Besides this, it is evident thatthe POWER which can originate the disposition of honorsand emoluments is more likely to attract than to be attractedby the POWER which can merely obstruct theircourse. If by influencing the President be want restraininghim, this is precisely what must have been intended.And it has been shown that the restraint would be salutary,at the same time that it would not be such as todestroy a single advantage to be looked for from the uncontrolledagency of that magistrate. The right of nominationwould produce all the good, without the ill. Upon a comparison of the plan for the appointment ofthe officers of the proposed government with that whichis established by the constitution of this State, a decidedpreference must be given to the former. In that plan thepower of nomination is unequivocally vested in the executive.And as there would be a necessity for submittingeach nomination to the judgment of an entire branch ofthe legislature, the circumstances attending an appointment,from the mode of conducting it, would naturallybecome matters of notoriety, and the public wouldbe at no loss to determine what part had been performedby the different actors. The blame of a bad nominationwould fall upon the President singly and absolutely. Thecensure of rejecting a good one would lie entirely at thedoor of the senate, aggravated by the considerationof their having counteracted the good intentions of theexecutive. If an ill appointment should be made, the executive,for nominating, and the Senate, for approving,would participate, though in different degrees, in theopprobrium and disgrace. The reverse of all this characterizes the manner of appointmentin this State. The council of appointment consistsof from three to five persons, of whom the governoris always one. This small body, shut up in a privateapartment, impenetrable to the public eye, proceed to theexecution of the trust committed to them. It is knownthat the governor claims the right of nomination uponthe strength of some ambiguous expressions in the Constitution;but it is not known to what extent, or in whatmanner he exercises it; nor upon what occasions he iscontradicted or opposed. The censure of a bad appointment,on account of the uncertainty of its author and forwant of a determinate object, has neither poignancy norduration. And while an unbounded field for cabal and intriguelies open, all idea of responsibility is lost. Themost that the public can know is that the governorclaims the right of nomination; that two out of the inconsiderablenumber of four men can too often be managedwithout much difficulty; that if some of the members of a#create memo3particular council should happen to be of an uncomplyingcharacter, it is frequently not impossible to get rid of theiropposition by regulating the times of meeting in such amanner as to render their attendance inconvenient; andthat from whatever cause it may proceed, a greatnumber of very improper appointments are from time totime made. Whether a governor of this State avails himselfof the ascendant, he must necessarily have in thisdelicate and important part of the administration to preferto offices men who are best qualified for them; orwhether he prostitutes that advantage to the advancementof persons whose chief merit is their implicit devotion tohis will and to the support of a despicable and dangeroussystem of personal influence are questions which, unfortunatelyfor the community, can only be the subjectsof speculation and conjecture. Every mere council of appointment, however constituted,will be a conclave in which cabal and intrigue willhave their full scope. Their number, without an unwarrantableincrease of expense, cannot be large enough topreclude a facility of combination. And as each memberwill have his friends and connections to provide for,the desire of mutual gratification will beget a scandalousbartering of votes and bargaining for places. The privateattachments of one man might easily be satisfied, but tosatisfy the private attachments of a dozen, or of twentymen, would occasion a monopoly of all the principal employmentsof the government in a few families andwould lead more directly to an aristocracy or an oligarchythan any measure that could be contrived. If, to avoid anaccumulation of offices, there was to be a frequent changein the persons who were to be a frequent changein the persons who were to compose the council, thiswould involve the mischiefs of a mutable administrationin their full extent. Such a council would also be moreliable to executive influence than the Senate, becausethey would be fewer in number, and would act less immediatelyunder the public inspection. Such a council, infine, as a substitute for the plan of the convention, wouldbe productive of an increase of expense, a multiplicationof the evils which spring from favoritism and intrigue inthe distribution of public honors, a decrease of stabilityin the administration of the government, and a diminutionof the security against an undue influence of theexecutive. And yet such a council has been warmly contendedfor as an essential amendment in the proposedConstitution. I could not with propriety conclude my observationson the subject of appointments without taking notice ofa scheme for which there have appeared some, though#create memo4but a few advocates; I mean that of uniting the House ofRepresentatives in the power of making them. I shall,however, do little more than mention it, as I cannotimagine that it is likely to gain the countenance of anyconsiderable part of the community. A body so fluctuatingand at the same time so numerous can never bedeemed proper for the exercise of that power. Its unfitnesswill appear manifest to all when it is recollected thatin half a century it may consist of three or four hundredpersons. All the advantages of the stability, both of theExecutive and of the Senate, would be defeated by thisunion, and infinite delays and embarrassments would beoccasioned. The exampled of most of the States in theirlocal constitutions encourages us to reprobate the idea. The only remaining powers of the executive are comprehendedin giving information to Congress of the stateof the Union; in recommending to their considerationsuch measures as he shall judge expedient; in conveningthem, or either branch, upon extraordinary occasions; inadjourning them when they cannot themselves agree uponthe time of adjournment; in receiving ambassadors andother public ministers; in faithfully executing the laws;and in commissioning all the officers of the United States. Except some cavils about the power of convening eitherhouse of the legislature, and that of receiving ambassadors,no objection has been made to this class ofauthorities; nor could they possibly admit of any. It required,indeed, an insatiable avidity for censure to inventexceptions to the parts which have been excepted to. Inregard to the power of convening either house of the legislatureI shall barely remark that in respect to the Senate,at least, we can readily discover a good reason for it. Asthis body has a concurrent power with the executive inthe article of treaties, it might often be necessary to callit together with a view to this object, when it would beunnecessary and improper to convene the House of Representatives.As to the reception of ambassadors, what Ihave said in a former paper will furnish a sufficient answer. We have now completed a survy of the structure andpowers of the executive department which, I have endeavoredto show, combines, as far as republican principleswill admit, all the requisites to energy. Theremaining inquiry is: does it also combine the requisitesto safety, in the republican sense - due dependence onthe people, a due responsibility? The answer to this questionhas been anticipated in the investigation of its othercharacteristics, and is satisfactorily deducible from thesecircumstances; the election of the President once in fouryears by persons immediately chosen by the people forthat purpose, and his being at all times liable to impeachment,trial, dismission from office, incapacity to servein any other, and to the forfeiture of life and estate by subsequentprosecution in the common course of law. Butthese precautions, great as they are, are not the onlyones which the plan of the convention has provided infavor of the public security. In the only instances in whichthe abuse of the executive authority was materially to befeared, the chief Magistrate of the United States, would,by that plan, be subjected to the control of a branch ofthe legislative body. What more can an enlightened andreasonable people desire?#copyin#user#uncopyin#match memo4#log#next1.1c 10
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