Trump v. Slaughter · ¶24
The idea that one President would be in charge was by no means a foregone conclusion in 1787. Just ten years earlier, the colonists had “thrown off the Yoke” of King George III and his colonial governors, 5 Papers of John Adams 26 (R. Taylor ed. 1983) (S. Adams), who had laid a “[f]oundation sufficient on which to erect a Tyranny,” J. Adams, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams 260 (L. Butterfield ed. 1961). Now citizens, they had no intention of reestablishing “the kingly office” by another name. 1 Papers of Thomas Jefferson 337 (J. Boyd ed. 1950). Thus the flurry of state constitutions that followed the Declaration of Independence “made of the gubernatorial magistrate a new kind of creature, a very pale reflection indeed of his regal ancestor.” G. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, p. 136 (1998) (Wood); see also J. Rakove, Original Meanings 250–252 (1996). Almost…Read in context ›
slip opinion, revised 7/07/26
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