Garry Wills: Congress & the Presidency are NOT Equal Branches! (Impeachment Relevant)

Garry Wills: classicist & American historian

Garry Wills takes issue with Adam Schiff and some other Democrats about the relationship of Congress and the President. Wills argues that the branches are NOT "co-equal" (why not just "equal"?). Congress is meant to be the dominant power in our tripartite governmental scheme. His argument is grounded in the text of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Few know the era of the Founding and their ways of thinking and speaking than does Wills. He's an expert in American history, abetted by his training as a classicist--advanced education in the languages of ancient Greeks and the New Testament and Latin and their culture. The Greek and Roman traditions were the oldest springs from which the Founders drew their inspiration to found a republic. And Wills is a very careful, learned reader.

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The Framers’ Answers to Three Myths About Impeachment

Congress is not a “co-equal” branch of government with the presidency. It is by far the superior branch. James Madison made that clear for all time with his lapidary sentence in Federalist No. 51: “In republican government, the legislative authority, necessarily, predominates.” Necessarily. ...