John Tyler Quotes
It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.
Tyler, John. "Protest." 30 Aug. 1842. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, edited by James D. Richardson, vol. 4, Bureau of National Literature, 1897, p. 192.
Note that early constitutional experts assumed that one of the President’s roles was to be non partisan and control partisanship. Note the phrase ‘prevent the artifices of party’. The early founders were very wary of political parties of ‘factions’ as Madison called them. However, most were extremely partisan although in the Presidency partisanship was toned down by George Washington but after him, partisan ship became the norm.
For Turgot, see below
In the 1952 steel seizure case the justice department took the position that the President's actions were not reviewable by the courts. The judge ruled against Baldridge and the government.
See Charles James Fox, John Milton, Jeremy Bentham, Grover Cleveland, Henry Clay, Benjamin Disraeli and Woodrow Wilson for similar expressions of this idea.
John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, holding office from 1841 to 1845 after briefly serving as the tenth vice president in 1841; he was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with President William Henry Harrison. Tyler ascended to the presidency after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. He was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president only when they did not infringe on the powers of the states. His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other politicians, and left Tyler estranged from both major political parties.
