Abstract

1. 'The execution of laws is more important than the making of them': reconciling executive energy with democracy 2. Executive power and the Virginia executive 3. Executive power and the constitution of 1787 4. 'To place before mankind the common sense of the subject': declarations of principle 5. The real revolution of 1800: Jefferson's transformation of the inaugural address 6. To 'produce a union of the powers of the whole': Jefferson's transformation of the appointment and removal powers 7. The Louisiana Purchase 8. To 'complete their entire union of opinion': the twelfth amendment as amendment to end all amendments 9. 'To bring their wills to a point of union and effect': declarations and presidential speech 10. Development and difficulties.

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