Existing comment:
No President Needed
"Had they then been blessed with an Andrew Johnson, [the Founders] would probably have bethought themselves of another disposition of the executive power," said these petitioners. President Andrew Johnson's unpopular policies after the Civil War and disregard for Congress led some Americans to believe the Presidency had become too powerful. Their solution was to get rid of the Presidency altogether.
Memorial regarding the abolition of the presidency, circa February 1868, Records of the U.S. Senate |