In some cases the very authors of constitutions broke the rules laid out in them to gain or preserve control over governments.
She argues that the authors of the constitution intended the recess appointment authority to cover times when the Senate is not available to "advise and consent".
Rather, it is to ask: What did they the authors of the constitution or those on whose authority they created the constitution in fact think about those values?
But maybe the president now gets the point that the authors of our Constitution intended, a notion this Harvard-educated constitutional law professor claimed to understand when he was a senator attempting to rein in the unbridled power of the NSA.
"That is clearly not at all what the authors of the Constitution intended".
The importance of this right was acknowledged by the authors of the Constitution, who placed it first in the Declaration.
Writing in 1826, Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri said the authors of the Constitution had intended the electors to be men of "superior discernment, virtue and information".
The authors of the constitution may have thought this would be next to impossible to achieve, given Thailand's history of ramshackle, aimless and short-lived coalitions.
The authors of the Constitution were clear: Congress would make the laws, and the executive branch would see that they were carried out.
The authors of the Constitution, however, did have insight into the potential abuse of the office of President, and they inserted something called the Emoluments Clause into Section 9 of Article I.
What the authors of the Constitution intended, Ms. Kaplen said, was that "you put all your expenditures on one side and all your resources on the other side," and that bond proceeds may be "part of those resources".
