Nor is the integrity of
the Senate the only reliance. The Constitution has provided some
important guards against the danger of executive influence upon the
legislative body: it declares that "No senator or representative shall
during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil
office under the United States, which shall have been created, or the
emoluments whereof shall have been increased, during such time; and no
person, holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of
either house during his continuance in office."
PUBLIUS
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FEDERALIST No. 77
The Appointing Power Continued and Other Powers of the Executive
Considered
From the Independent Journal.
Wednesday, April 2, 1788.
HAMILTON
To the People of the State of New York:
IT HAS been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected from the
co-operation of the Senate, in the business of appointments, that it
would contribute to the stability of the administration. The consent of
that body would be necessary to displace as well as to appoint. A change
of the Chief Magistrate, therefore, would not occasion so violent or so
general a revolution in the officers of the government as might be
expected, if he were the sole disposer of offices.
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