“If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.”

Five lively Stones. " The Committee of Five " This matter is by the degree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men. ( Daniel 4:17 )
Our Declaration of Independence. Roger Sherman, " That man who never said a foolish thing "
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He was the only person to sign all four great state papers of the U.S.: the Continental Association; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation, and; the Constitution - he would know pretenders to patriotism..

Like the royal courts of old. The Executive branch is resembling more and more that of King George prior to the American Revolution...