It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and, whatever may be the forms of the Constitution, unites all power in the same hands.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution”, p.357
![It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first comports with, the last violates, the fundamental principles of good government; and,](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/alexander-hamilton/it-is-one-thing-to-be-subordinate-to-the-laws-and-another-for-the-executive-to-be-dependent-on-the.jpg)