Did the Framers model a strong executive, as Unitary Executive proponents claim?
That’s a claim that is very easy to rebuff. One delegate to the Constitutional Convention, New York’s Alexander Hamilton, may have personally preferred it, but his pro-monarchical views were resoundingly rejected by other participants in the Convention. In Madison’s notes on the Convention, it’s evident that the Framers worked to avoid giving the president any kind of power that might deliver the country to a system of one-man rule. They did worry about the unpredictability of the legislature—the “democratic branch”—and that’s why they gave the President veto power. But they also admired it as the best place for self-government to be conducted, and were very clear about their aims to construct what they termed a “Congressional government.” The Unitary Executive is a US corporate model—controversial but employed the world over—where the CEO is also the Chair of the Board. It is a twentieth-century model for undivided corporate power. 5. But maybe people really want a king? Maybe they fo
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