It
is impossible to keep the judges too distinct from every other avocation
than that of expounding the laws. It is peculiarly dangerous to place
them in a situation to be either corrupted or influenced by the
Executive.
PUBLIUS
1. Mr. Abraham Yates, a warm opponent of the plan of the convention is
of this number.
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FEDERALIST No. 74
The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning
Power of the Executive
From the New York Packet.
Tuesday, March 25, 1788.
HAMILTON
To the People of the State of New York:
THE President of the United States is to be "commander-in-chief of the
army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several
States when called into the actual service of the United States." The
propriety of this provision is so evident in itself, and it is, at the
same time, so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in
general, that little need be said to explain or enforce it. Even those
of them which have, in other respects, coupled the chief magistrate with
a council, have for the most part concentrated the military authority in
him alone. Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of
war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the
exercise of power by a single hand.
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