“A Landholder” [Oliver Ellsworth] III
Connecticut Courant (Hartford), November 19, 1787
Following are excerpts from Oliver Ellsworth’s article in the Connecticut Courant:
“A government capable of controling the whole, and bringing its force to a point is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. Read more
A Further Reply to Elbridge Gerry: “A Landholder” [Oliver Ellsworth] V
Connecticut Courant (Hartford), December 3, 1787
Following are excerpts from Oliver Ellsworth’s article, published in the Connecticut Courant:
“The vice-president is not an executive officer, while the president is in discharge of his duty; and when he is called to preside his legislative voice ceases. Read more
Reply to Elbridge Gerry: “A Landholder” [Oliver Ellsworth] IV
Connecticut Courant (Hartford), November 26, 1787
Following are excerpts from Oliver Ellsworth’s article:
“Such a body of men might be an army to defend the country in case of foreign invasion, but not a legislature, and the expence to support them would equal the whole national revenue. Read more
Looking to the state governments’ creation of their respective senates, as explained in The Birth of the Senate, the creation of the Senate in the Constitution was a given, when the Constitutional Convention began. See Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic: 1776-1787, 553.
