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There is a fascinating assessment of the separation of powers in the US which includes reference to both former President Richard Nixon's limited use of the same powers and the Federalist Papers of Hamilton and Madison.

As the journalist Josh Marshall put it on this week about a different 200-year-old document: “Anyone who has read the Federalist Papers in their totality knows that somewhere between a third and a half of the essays are very specifically talking about Donald Trump.”

In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton explained that this confirmation process was a bulwark against cronyism and a safeguard of good government.

Barton, for instance, focuses mainly on falsifying evidence that the founders didn't "really" believe all that stuff about the separation of church and state they wrote directly into the Constitution and defended in the Federalist Papers.

The word “mandate” doesn’t appear in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers.