Charlie Baker Quotes
There's value in checks and balances. And there's value in having independence in the governor's office with respect to the legislature.
Baker, Charlie. Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate. WCVB, 28 Oct. 2014.
There was much argument over the desired relative strength and power of the three branches of government. Wilson suggested equality. We argue about it to this day.
Morris had it wrong. He perceived that the Senate could not be a check on the House or the President because to him, the Senate was the house of aristocrats and America really did not have aristocrats since there was no nobility so that there would be no difference between Representatives and Senators-–they both were drawn from the same egalitarian population. He missed however that the Senate, being elected by states, would represent a broader constituency than a member of the House, and because of this broader perspective, would come to see issues in nationalist and state terms while Representatives would perceive the same issues in local terms. Hence the two houses of Congress became effective checks on each other, and the Senate on the President because not of different social or economic class, but of broader and narrower perspectives. It was not what Senators were but what they would become once they were elected and had to be reelected.
The United States government had for many years deposited all its funds in a single private bank, the Bank of the United States. President Jackson, without congressional authorization, ordered the Federal deposits to be distributed among state banks instead. The Senate passed a resolution demanding a copy of the "paper" he had read to the cabinet ordering the change of practice:
Charles Duane Baker Jr. is an American politician and businessman serving as the 72nd governor of Massachusetts since January 8, 2015. He was a cabinet official under two governors of Massachusetts and served ten years as CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
