Excerpt from The Journal of the Federal Convention of 1787 Analyzed: The Acts and Proceedings Thereof Compared; And Their Precedents Cited; In Evidence of the Making of the Constitution for Interpretation or Construction in the Alternative, According to Either the Federal Plan or the National Plan The charters of the several colonies show the legis lative and executive separate and distinct from each other, from the first settlement of Virginia down to the Revolution, as they were in England during the same period, but the judiciary, whose powers had been exercised by the legislative and executive with resultant oppression of the people, had only recently become separate and distinct from them, and the sep arate and distinct nature of the three powers was the subject of particular solicitude and expression at this period. Thus it is declared in the constitutions of several states framed during the Revolution that the legislative, executive and judiciary should be sepa rate and distinct.1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.