Thomas Jefferson,
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Hay
(1807)
“ To comply with such calls would leave the nation without an executive branch, whose agency nevertheless is understood to be so constantly necessary that it is the sole branch which the constitution requires to be always in function. ”
Thomas Jefferson,
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Hay
(1807)
“ Reserving the necessary right of the president of the United States to decide, independently of all other authority, what papers coming to him as president the public interest permits to be communicated, and to whom, I assure you of my readiness under that restriction, voluntarily to furnish on all occasions whatever the purposes of justice may require. ”
Thomas Jefferson,
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Hay
(1807)
“ The respect mutually due between the constituted authorities in their official intercourse, as well as sincere dispositions to do for every one what is just, will always insure from the executive, in exercising the duty of discrimination confided to him, the same candor and integrity to which the nation has, in like manner, trusted in the disposal of its judiciary authorities. ”
