If you're looking for a founder who wanted an "energetic" executive, Hamilton's your guy. Many called him a monarchist.
But even Hamilton believed in the vital importance of a president's "vulnerability to prosecution in the course of law."
Read the last paragraph of Justice Sotomayor's dissent.
Do you think Hamilton meant monarchist in the sense of an actual king instead of a lifelong executive, or do you think he meant it more in the Adams sense of a singular executive, or do you think Adams bugged him so much he meant something not quite distinct but definitely not what Adams meant?
