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Inventing the American presidency - Kenneth C. Davis

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When the founders of the United States gathered to create the foundations of the country, they decided on three branches of government, with a president central to the executive branch. Kenneth C. Davis explains why this decision was not necessarily inevitable and what variables were up for debate.

According to the narrator, the men who wrote the Constitution were afraid of:

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