“It takes a village!”–Hillary Clinton

“[John Adams] had had enough experience with town meetings at home to know that in order for anything to be done certain powers and responsibilities had to be delegated to a moderator, a town clerk, a constable, and , at times, to special committees.”

John Adams by David McCollough at 376

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“…the executive magistrate must have sufficient power to defend himself, and thus the people, for all the ‘enterprises’ of the natural aristocracy.

“Adams believed in a ‘government of laws not men,’ as he had written in his Thoughts on Government and in the Massachusetts constitution but…’The executive power is properly the government; the laws are a dead letter until an administration begins to carry them into execution.”

id. at 378

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