Trump v. Slaughter · ¶25
The Framers chose to depart from this model, for they had seen its flaws up close. Common was the complaint that the States’ feeble and divided executives left no “effectual check” for “the instability & encroachments” of legislatures. See 2 Farrand’s Records 35 (J. Madison). For “fear” of “monarchical . . . power,” William Livingston lamented, the States “improvidently” devised executives “too weak & inefficatious to operate with proper energy & vigour.” 5 Papers of William Livingston 56–57 (C. Prince, M. Lustig, & D. Vorhees eds. 1988).Read in context ›
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