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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The great adverse relationship that the Founding Fathers built into the Constitution was the adverse relationship…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2014
The great adverse relationship that the Founding Fathers built into the Constitution was the adverse relationship between the legislative and the executive branches.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse discusses the intended rivalry between legislative and executive branches for public good.

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