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| | Article 2, Section 1, Clause 1: James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | From this fatal defect of a constitutional Council has arisen the improper power of the Senate, in the appointment of public officers, and the alarming dependence and connection between that branch of the legislature and the Supreme Executive. |
 | | But we cannot infer from any example in England, that a concurrence between the Executive and a part of the legislative is contrary to the maxims of their government, since their government allows of such a concurrence whenever the Executive pleases. |
 | | But though the President under our constitution may have the aid of the "principal officers of the great departments," he is to have this aid, I think, in the most unexceptionable manner possible. |
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