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  • It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.357
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