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I Think It Absolutely Necessary That The President Should Have The Power Of Removing His Subordinates From Office; It Will Make Him, In A Peculiar Manner, Responsible For Their Conduct, And Subject Him To Impeachment Himself, If He Suffers Them To Perpetrate With Impunity High Crimes Or Misdemeanors Against The United States, Or Neglects To Superintend Their Conduct, So As To Check Their Excesses.

[i]t Is More Convenient To Prevent The Passage Of A Law, Than To Declare It Void After It Has Passed.

Were It Possible So To Accelerate The Intercourse Between Every Part Of The Globe That All Its Inhabitants Could Be United Under The Superintending Authority Of An Ecumenical Council, How Great A Portion Of Human Evils Would Be Avoided.

Having Outlived So Many Of My Contemporaries, I Ought Not To Forget That I May Be Thought To Have Outlived Myself.

On Any Other Hypothesis, The Delegation Of Judicial Power Would Annul The Authority Delegating It; And The Concurrence Of This Department With The Others In Usurped Powers, Might Subvert Forever, And Beyond The Possible Reach Of Any Rightful Remedy, The Very Constitution Which All Were Instituted To Preserve.