ABSTRACT
Legislatures are composed of many people for two reasons: to assure knowledge of, sympathy for, and determination to do something about claims on government arising from all parts of the population; and to assure that open discussion and bargaining will precede decision. Voters are strategically distributed in districts to maximize the strength in legislative elections of the political party that controls the district making. "The executive powers are delegated to the President with a view to have a responsible officer to superintend, control, inspect, and check the officers necessarily employed in administering the laws". The early conception of the President's assignment as that of executing and supervising the execution of the laws bears little resemblance to the dominion of the President today. The primary reason for giving the President the right to veto legislation, said Alexander Hamilton in No. 73 of The Federalist, is to enable him to defend himself.
