2. What are the "ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive?"

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considered the latter [the legislative] as best adapted to deliberation and wisdom, and
best calculated to conciliate the confidence of the people and to secure their privileges
and interests.
1. What does a "feeble Executive" in the government lead to?
2.
What are the "ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive?"
Wherever two or more persons are engaged in any common enterprise or pursuit, there
is always danger of difference of opinion.... Whenever these happen, they lessen the
respectability, weaken the authority, and distract the plans and operation of those whom
they divide. If they should unfortunately assail the supreme executive magistracy of a
country, consisting of a plurality of persons, they might impede... the most important
measures of the government, in the most critical emergencies of the state. And what is
still worse, they might split the community into the most violent and irreconcilable
factions, adhering differently to the different individuals who composed the magistracy.
3. What are the natural consequences of giving two people Executive power?
But one of the weightiest objections to a plurality in the Executive, and which lies as
much against the last as the first plan, is that it tends to conceal faults and destroy
responsibility.... But the multiplication of the Executive adds to the difficulty of detection
in either case. It often becomes impossible, amidst mutual accusations, to determine on
whom the blame or the punishment of a pernicious measure, or series of pernicious
measures, ought really to fall. It is shifted from one to another with so much dexterity,
and under such plausible appearances, that the public opinion is left in suspense about
the real author.
4. If there were multiple Executives, what is the problem if something goes wrong?
Final thoughts:
5. Why does Hamilton argue that taking decisive, quick action is good for the Executive
but not preferable for the Legislative branch?
6. Summarize the overall argument of Federalist 70 in ONE sentence.
Transcribed Image Text:considered the latter [the legislative] as best adapted to deliberation and wisdom, and best calculated to conciliate the confidence of the people and to secure their privileges and interests. 1. What does a "feeble Executive" in the government lead to? 2. What are the "ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive?" Wherever two or more persons are engaged in any common enterprise or pursuit, there is always danger of difference of opinion.... Whenever these happen, they lessen the respectability, weaken the authority, and distract the plans and operation of those whom they divide. If they should unfortunately assail the supreme executive magistracy of a country, consisting of a plurality of persons, they might impede... the most important measures of the government, in the most critical emergencies of the state. And what is still worse, they might split the community into the most violent and irreconcilable factions, adhering differently to the different individuals who composed the magistracy. 3. What are the natural consequences of giving two people Executive power? But one of the weightiest objections to a plurality in the Executive, and which lies as much against the last as the first plan, is that it tends to conceal faults and destroy responsibility.... But the multiplication of the Executive adds to the difficulty of detection in either case. It often becomes impossible, amidst mutual accusations, to determine on whom the blame or the punishment of a pernicious measure, or series of pernicious measures, ought really to fall. It is shifted from one to another with so much dexterity, and under such plausible appearances, that the public opinion is left in suspense about the real author. 4. If there were multiple Executives, what is the problem if something goes wrong? Final thoughts: 5. Why does Hamilton argue that taking decisive, quick action is good for the Executive but not preferable for the Legislative branch? 6. Summarize the overall argument of Federalist 70 in ONE sentence.
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