"At this time," he says, "the opinions of men were much divided concerning a Form of Government to be established amongst us.

The great officers of the Army, as I said before, were for a Select Standing Senate, to be joined to the Representative of the People.

Others laboured to have the supreme authority to consist of an Assembly chosen by the People, and a Council of State to be chosen by that Assembly, to be vested with executive power, and accountable to that which should next succeed, at which time the power of the said Council should determine.

Some were desirous to have a Representative of the People constantly sitting, but changed by a perpetual rotation.

Others proposed that there might be joined to the Popular Assembly a select number of men in the nature of the Lacedaemonian Ephori, who should have a negative in things wherein the essentials of the Government should be concerned, such as the exclusion of a Single Person, touching Liberty of Conscience, alteration of the Constitution, and other things of the last importance to the State.