Tag: Presidential Monopoly
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Presidential Monopoly
The Presidential MonopolyWrote Jefferson in 1790: "The transaction of business with foreign nations is executive altogether. It belongs, then, to the head of that department, except as to such portions of it as are specially submitted to the Senate. Exceptions are to be construed strictly."…
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Logan Act
The Logan ActWhen in 1798 a Philadelphia Quaker named Logan went to Paris on his own to undertake a negotiation with the French Government with a view to averting war between France and the United States, his enterprise stimulated Congress to pass "An Act to Prevent Usurpation of Executive Func…
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President's Diplomatic Role
The President's Diplomatic RoleHamilton, although he had expressed substantially the same view in The Federalist regarding the power of reception,1 adopted a very different conception of it in defense of Washington's proclamation. Writing und…
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Formative Power
A Formal or a Formative PowerIn his attack, instigated by Jefferson, upon Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793 at the outbreak of war between France and Great Britain, Madison advanced the argument that all large questions of foreign policy fell within the ambit of Congress, by virtue…
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Jefferson
Jefferson's Real PositionNor did Jefferson himself officially support Madison's point of view, as the following extract from his "minutes of a Conversation," which took place July 10, 1793, between himself and Citizen Genet, show: "He asked if they [Congress] were not the sove…