“The first man put at the helm will be a good one. No body knows what sort may come afterwards. The Executive will be always increasing here, as elsewhere, till it ends in a Monarchy.”

Benjamin Franklin
Original source
Records of the Federal Convention (which resulted in the United States Constitution), June 4, 1787 ↗

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