1From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 18 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
..., the Republic of France. The assumption of power in the Executive to act independently of Congress in things in which their decision was constitutionally essential, was the key stone in the arch, and bound together the system manifested in the queries.” GW apparently “imagined Congress” like the French parliament under the ancien regime, with “no right to deliberate but to act, and that...