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“‘The executive power’ granted at the American founding was conceptually, legally, and semantically incapable of conveying a reservoir of royal authority. The real meaning … was something almost embarrassingly simple: the power to execute the law.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
www.theatlantic.com What Two Crucial Words in the Constitution Actually Mean I reviewed more than a thousand publications from the founding era, and discovered that “executive power” doesn’t imply what most scholars thought. 
