What is America’s oldest constitutional debate? | The Economist

From The Economist.

Donald Trump is reviving a fight that began with Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson: how much power does the constitution grant the executive? Two and a half centuries later, the argument has still not really been settled.

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