Charles Sumner: “I had always supposed that the President was the Executive,--bound to…”

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I had always supposed that the President was the Executive,--bound to see the laws faithfully executed, but not empowered to make laws.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner clarifies the role of the President as the executor of laws, not as a lawmaker.

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Charles Sumner: “I had always supposed that the President was the Executive,--bound to see the laws faithfully executed, but not…”