The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . e executive pov;er in aclause which provided that Congress may by law vest the appoint-ment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the Presidentalone, in the courts of lav/, or in tne heads of departments (4). Morriss motives in the establishment of the execu-tive were purely nationalistic ones. A strong, firm, and indepen-dent exec^.itive meant to him a national government; therefore heopposed anything which was inimical to such strength, firmness,orindependence. Many of Morriss contemporaries had keen remembrancesof the misuse of
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . e executive pov;er in aclause which provided that Congress may by law vest the appoint-ment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the Presidentalone, in the courts of lav/, or in tne heads of departments (4). Morriss motives in the establishment of the execu-tive were purely nationalistic ones. A strong, firm, and indepen-dent exec^.itive meant to him a national government; therefore heopposed anything which was inimical to such strength, firmness,orindependence. Many of Morriss contemporaries had keen remembrancesof the misuse of power by the royal governors, and were not anxiousto give the executive much power. Morris had a keener vision, anddistinguished as to the source from whence the popularly electedexecutive would draw his power; therefore he used his efforts toputting all possible prwer in his hands. Bancroft thatMorris underhandedly attempted to seciire a life tenure by means of fl) Farraiid,II, 44. (2) Ibid, II, 389. (3) Ibid,11,^39 (4) Ibid, li, 67 a oornbination of the electoral system with eleotion by the said that Morris figured out that under the electoral system noman would ever secure a majority, but that the election would al-ways he cast into the Senate. Then by a junction between the out-going President and the aristocratic Senate the President would se-cure re-eloction for life(l). The above charge is an injustice toa man who on every oc-^.asion boldly and frankly enunciated his trueopinions and the object he sought. To refute it we only need torefer to Morriss own action in the convention. On September 6 heurged a ^proposition of Gerrys that in case of no majority the clection should be referred to both branches and not just to the Sen-ate(2). Morriis even went farther than this, and suggested thatthe President in office should be re-eligible only in case heshould secure a majority in t?ie elctoral college (3). Morris atthis time had discarded ell idea of
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