Why is There a President in the Constitution?
In its first week, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was confronted with a motion by James Wilson "that the executive consist of a single person." From that moment forward, there were heated debates about whether the new national government should have a president at all — and, if so, what powers and responsibilities should he have? Hovering over all these debates was an accepted fact: the first president, should there be one, would almost certainly be none other than George Washington.
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