...better hope that there is no such inconsistency, because executive energy is a requisite in any case: "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government" (Federalist 70). On the first of June, 1787, nine and a half months before Hamilton wrote these words,...

...independent executive is scarcely confined to the judicious use of the veto power. Publius writes that "energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government" (70:423). And when we look closely at leading features of his "good government," leaving to one side...

...branches, they also saw the need for a strong executive. In Hamilton's famous words from Federalist 70, "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government." The first ingredient of such energy, he argued, was unity. What we have today, rather than the unity...

...Suffolk University Law Review, vol. 17 (1983), pp. 881, 884. 53. See Federalist No. 70 (A. Hamilton) ("Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government."). 54. Sunstein, "What's Standing after Lujanl" pp. 209, 216-22. See also Cass R. Sunstein, "Interest...

...was his energizing of the political system. Publius acknowledges the traditional belief which held "that a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government," but he goes on to argue that in actuality such an institution was absolutely essential to the survival...

...characterized by "energy" to engage in "decision, activity, secrecy, and dispatch," must be unitary. Since "energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government," Publius chooses a separation of powers system in order to endow the new government with the unitary...

...pursued. In Federalist 70 to 77, Publius also expresses this view when he recommends a vigorous executive: "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government" (31). Progressives and contemporary advocates of an administrative state support an energetic executive...

...difficult just as it has become more necessary."65 CHAPTER EIGHT The Executive Branch Jane Shapiro Zacek "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government."1 So observed Alexander Hamilton, New York delegate to the US Constitutional Convention...

...in the ratification debates. In response to critics, Publius (Hamilton) labored to refute the charge that "a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. " Not only was a single, "energetic" executive compatible with republicanism, Hamilton argued, it was...

...to hear. But there are innumerable objections: "There is an idea which is not without its advocates, that a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the...admitting the condemnation of their own principles" (70:423). And yet energy in the Executive is a leading character. . . of good government. It is essential...