Trump v. Cook · ¶99
Newly elected President Woodrow Wilson agreed with much of the Aldrich Plan, but “insist[ed] upon” an executive agency that would exercise “governmental control” over the banking economy. A. Link, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910–1917, p. 48 (1954) (Link); see also 1 Warburg 81–91. Wilson, in this respect, was also departing from tradition. He had long believed that “bureaucrats might more effectively govern the country than the American people.” Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Assn., 575 U. S. 92, 130, n. 6 (2015) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment). Wilson’s ideal system of government was not the tripartite and limited one enshrined in our Constitution, but the German Empire’s system of unified administrative power, which he, echoing Warburg, saw as “nearly perfected.” W. Wilson, The Study of Administration, 2 Pol. Sci. Q. 197, 204 (1887); see id., at 207, 214–219. Wilson…Read in context ›
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