It was undoubtedly the chief object of this last provision to prevent the perpetuation of power in the same hands, or under the same influences, by removing the choice of President wholly from the control of persons wielding National authority.
Hoar argues that a key constitutional provision aimed to prevent the concentration of power in the same hands.
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He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
However any political antagonist might dislike him, every antagonist must respect him, and nobody could laugh at him.
He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.
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