The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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8810. VICE-PRESIDENCY, Duties of.
—As to duty, the Constitution will know me
only as the member of the Legislative body;
and its principle is, that of a separation of
Legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions,
except in cases specified. If this principle
be not expressed in direct terms, it is
clearly the spirit of the Constitution and it
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every friend of free government.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 161. Ford ed., vii, 108.
(M. Jan. 1797)
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