Many a liberty is taken by today’s commentators when imagining what the Constitution’s Framers would or would not have thought about how the modern American government works — or, more often, doesn’t work. Generally speaking, unless the commentator’s name is Rick Brookhiser (our eminent historian and author of, among other gems, What Would the Founders Do?), you’d best take such deductions with a grain of salt.
Yet, there is something about which we can be confident: The ingenious men who designed our framework of government, premised on the principle of discrete branches that check each other’s misconduct by exercising separate powers, would have scoffed at the notion that presidential corruption could be policed by prosecutors who work for the president.
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