As Sir Henry Maine rightly says, the framers of our Constitution, consciously or unconsciously, made the President’s office like the King’s office under the English constitution of their time,--the constitution, namely, of George III., who chose his advisers with or without the assent of Parliament.
Wilson analyzes the similarities between the U.S. presidency and the British monarchy during George III's reign.
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