American presidents act almost like elected kings, with vast powers and very little accountability. But that wasn’t the plan. Responding to anti-federalist warnings that presidents would eventually degenerate into a type of monarchy, Federalists like Tench Coxe, John Dickinson, James Iredell, and many others went into great detail explaining how the power of the executive branch would be extremely limited in comparison to the British Monarchy they fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from.
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The Debate Over the President and the Executive Branch
Episode – Is the President a King in Disguise? The Anti-Federalist Argument
Maharrey – Tench Coxe on the Executive Branch: President, not a King
Tench Coxe – An American Citizen I (26 Sept 1787)
John Dickinson – Fabius II (15 Apr 1788)
John Dickinson – Fabius IX (1 May 1788)
James Iredell – Marcus, Response to George Mason (1788)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 66 (8 Mar 1788)
James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (26 July 1788)
James Madison – Helvidius No. 1 (24 Aug 1793)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 70 (18 Mar 1788)
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