Identifier: actualgovernmen00boyn (find matches)
Title: Actual government of New York..
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Boynton, Frank D. (from old catalog)
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CHAPTER XXIII EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT: PRESIDENTS ASSISTANTS The Cabinet. Unlike the presidency, the cabinet wasnot created by the Constitution. When the organizationof the executive power was under discussion, it was pro-posed that an executive council be created to act as a checkupon the president, and there was also some discussion asto the wisdom of forming an advisory body to assist him,without giving it any power to control his action. Neitherof these plans received the sanction of the Convention, andthe Constitution makes no provision for a body possessingthe character and functions of the presidents cabinet. Theonly approach to such a provision is found in the clausegiving the president the right to require the opinion inwriting of the principal officer in each of the executive de-partments upon any subject relating to the duties of theirrespective offices. There were, then, to be executive de-partments whose chief officers were to advise and otherwise >ist the president; but

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