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7808. SENATE (United States), Executive and.—[continued].

The Senate is not supposed
by the Constitution to be acquainted
with the concerns of the Executive Department.
It was not [451] intended that these should
be communicated to them.—
Opinion on Powers of Senate. Washington ed. vii, 466. Ford ed., v, 162.
(1790)

 
[451]

“Not” is omitted in the Ford edition. “It
was not intended” is the reading in the original MS.—Editor.