If to this should be added an imperative provision of law forbidding any Member of Congress from applying for the appointment of any person to an executive office, the abuses of the old system would be corrected and the separate departments of the government would be independent of each other.
Sherman proposes a law to prevent Congress members from influencing executive appointments to enhance government independence.
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