The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . hat he did not haVe to be bound by their opinions. This plan wasreferred first to the Committee on Detail, and later to the Commit-tee on Unfinished Portions. The Committee on Unfinished Portions refused toreport the plan, but merely substituted a clause that the Presi-dent might require the opinions of the principal officers in the ex-ecutive department (3). Llason objected to the action of the commit-tee on the grounds that in rejecting a council to the Presidentwe are about to try an experiment which the most despotic govern-ments have neve
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . hat he did not haVe to be bound by their opinions. This plan wasreferred first to the Committee on Detail, and later to the Commit-tee on Unfinished Portions. The Committee on Unfinished Portions refused toreport the plan, but merely substituted a clause that the Presi-dent might require the opinions of the principal officers in the ex-ecutive department (3). Llason objected to the action of the commit-tee on the grounds that in rejecting a council to the Presidentwe are about to try an experiment which the most despotic govern-ments have never ventured. The -rand Seignior himself had hisDivan , l^ranklin, Wilson, and Madison all urged consideration foran executive council. Morris rose and explained his change of mindand the opinion of the committee by saying that it was judged thatthe President would acquire protection in his bad measures by per-suading the Council of State to approve thera(4). The clause as fDFarrand, 11,50. (2)Ibid,II, .> x^. (3) Ibid, II, 541. (4)Ibid, II, reported,--without a Gounoil of State--,was adopted. Morris urged voluntary shirking of responsibilityby the President as the best grounds for discarding a Council ofState, hut in the end it would have probably been the involuntaryshirking of responsibility that would have damned the plan. Oncegive an exGo::tive council the foothold of being supported in itsexistence by the Constitution , and it v7ould never stop in itsacquisition of power. The mere fact that the moiibers would have heldoffice only at the pleasure of the President, and that hewould not ihave been required to follow their advice,-/ould not have exertedmuch influence in the long run. The British Constitution is the same principles as the plan that Morris suggested, and yetthe King has become a mere figure head in the executive branch. TheGounci:}. of State would have used every little precedent which theymight have established in the furtherance of the exte
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