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The National Consulate of the United States of America was first established under the 1794 Constitution, following the death of President John Hancock (1791 - 1793) and the subsequent acting tenure of John Rutledge (1793 - 1794) and placeholder administration of John Jay (1794) Sparked by demands both for a decentralization and concentration of power to counteract the gridlock that had consumed the 1787 document’s congress and the impotency of the Presidency following the untimely death of it’s first holder George Washington (1789) and the prolonged tenure of John Adams (1789 - 1791) as Acting President.
The National Consulary would consist of a single officer from each of the thirteen states, chosen by the State Executive and approved by the State Legislatures, for a ten year term (subject to removal at the will of 2/3rds of a State’s legislature). They would then elect a Consul Primus Inter Pares or simply First Consul for a one year term, given the authority to act on behalf of the Consulate Whole, but subject to the overriding authority of any seven Consuls. The Consulate itself was given authorities vast compared to the old Presidency, able to call elections of the lesser house at will and provide ’unanimous affirmation’ to a piece of legislation so long as it passed one branch of the legislature, evading the other.
John Jay would serve as the De-Facto First of the First Consuls, serving for a matter of two weeks after the 1794 constitution entered into formal effect on July 4th of that year. When the first National Consulate, later termed the Madison Consulate assembled, it was firmly divided between the two factions which had defined 1794’s convention… the Men of Limits, former Anti-Federalists who nonetheless were able to define themselves outside of the rabble-politic that was at the time grasping America’s sister revolution in France. The others, simply Hamiltonians. While the titular figure of the faction was not among the chosen few that formed the first Consular government, he would still hold considerable sway throughout.
The Madison Consulate (1794 - 1795)
James Madison, the Consul from Virginia and First Consul - Man of Limits (1794 -
William Few, the Consul from Georgia - Man of Limits (1794 -
Samuel Adams, the Consul from Massachusetts - Man of Limits (1794 -
John Dickinson, the Consul from Pennsylvania - Man of Limits (1794 -
John Langdon, the Consul from New Hampshire - Man of Limits (1794 -
Alexander Martin, the Consul from North Carolina - Man of Limits (1794 -
Aaron Burr, the Consul from New York - Man of Limits (1794 -
Oliver Ellsworth, the Consul from Connecticut - Hamiltonian
Frederick Frelinghuysen, the Consul from New Jersey - Hamiltonian (1794 -
Richard Potts, the Consul from Maryland - Hamiltonian (1794 -
John Vining, the Consul from Delaware - Hamiltonian (1794 -
William Bradford, the Consul from Rhode Island - Hamiltonian (1794 -
Pierce Butler, the Consul from South Carolina - Non-Factional (1794 -
The initial composition of the first Consulate was a narrow division, with the ultimate control laying in the Men of Limits with a 7 to 5 division. A number of the men had previously served as Senators, and those who had not— Madison, Adams, and Dickinson, were men of considerable national prominence. Madison, despite his ultimately futile role as the last defender of 1787 with amendments would vigorously enter the Consulate in a tenuous alignment with the Men of Limits and Pierce Butler of South Carolina (an eclectic eccentric who’s alignments roughly met with the Men of Limits on real matters, but not constitutional matters).
The one of the first matter to rise to the table was the ever unsolved Capital debate,
The National Consulary would consist of a single officer from each of the thirteen states, chosen by the State Executive and approved by the State Legislatures, for a ten year term (subject to removal at the will of 2/3rds of a State’s legislature). They would then elect a Consul Primus Inter Pares or simply First Consul for a one year term, given the authority to act on behalf of the Consulate Whole, but subject to the overriding authority of any seven Consuls. The Consulate itself was given authorities vast compared to the old Presidency, able to call elections of the lesser house at will and provide ’unanimous affirmation’ to a piece of legislation so long as it passed one branch of the legislature, evading the other.
John Jay would serve as the De-Facto First of the First Consuls, serving for a matter of two weeks after the 1794 constitution entered into formal effect on July 4th of that year. When the first National Consulate, later termed the Madison Consulate assembled, it was firmly divided between the two factions which had defined 1794’s convention… the Men of Limits, former Anti-Federalists who nonetheless were able to define themselves outside of the rabble-politic that was at the time grasping America’s sister revolution in France. The others, simply Hamiltonians. While the titular figure of the faction was not among the chosen few that formed the first Consular government, he would still hold considerable sway throughout.
The Madison Consulate (1794 - 1795)
James Madison, the Consul from Virginia and First Consul - Man of Limits (1794 -
William Few, the Consul from Georgia - Man of Limits (1794 -
Samuel Adams, the Consul from Massachusetts - Man of Limits (1794 -
John Dickinson, the Consul from Pennsylvania - Man of Limits (1794 -
John Langdon, the Consul from New Hampshire - Man of Limits (1794 -
Alexander Martin, the Consul from North Carolina - Man of Limits (1794 -
Aaron Burr, the Consul from New York - Man of Limits (1794 -
Oliver Ellsworth, the Consul from Connecticut - Hamiltonian
Frederick Frelinghuysen, the Consul from New Jersey - Hamiltonian (1794 -
Richard Potts, the Consul from Maryland - Hamiltonian (1794 -
John Vining, the Consul from Delaware - Hamiltonian (1794 -
William Bradford, the Consul from Rhode Island - Hamiltonian (1794 -
Pierce Butler, the Consul from South Carolina - Non-Factional (1794 -
The initial composition of the first Consulate was a narrow division, with the ultimate control laying in the Men of Limits with a 7 to 5 division. A number of the men had previously served as Senators, and those who had not— Madison, Adams, and Dickinson, were men of considerable national prominence. Madison, despite his ultimately futile role as the last defender of 1787 with amendments would vigorously enter the Consulate in a tenuous alignment with the Men of Limits and Pierce Butler of South Carolina (an eclectic eccentric who’s alignments roughly met with the Men of Limits on real matters, but not constitutional matters).
The one of the first matter to rise to the table was the ever unsolved Capital debate,