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Presidential Term

[The President] shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years . . . .
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Proposing that Founding Era documents and debates point to the executive power as primarily giving the President the power to execute federal laws and to control governmental officers who execute federal law.

Documenting the development of the unitary executive over the course of the first fifty years of the United States’ constitutional history.

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