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The framers had expected that branch of government to be the most powerful but this would diminish it.

This view has no historical support: The framers of the Constitution were deeply distrustful of executive authority.

Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.

The framers stated clearly that Congress, not the president, should hold the power of the purse.

“My last year of high school,” said Robinson, who after graduation would become a mechanic and a construction framer, working on cars on West Harriet Street on weekends and evenings.