It should be obvious by now that the executive branch wields far too much power. The founding generation considered this kind of consolidation one of the greatest threats to liberty. Some warned that the system wouldn’t self-enforce and predicted the “elective despotism” we live under today.

Path to Liberty: Feb 20, 2023

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)

Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams (5 Oct 1787)

Executive Power: Who Made Presidents and Governors Kings?

Richard Henry Lee to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

James Madison – Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

Separation of Powers: A “Dogmatic Maxim” in the Constitution

President or King? Antifederalist Cato No. 4

Philadelphinesis IX (6 Feb 1788)

The Center for the Study of the American Constitution

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