Beaudry, Houston Richard Cazzell DeBerry, Fort Worth Joshua W. [read post]

  We have already elsewhere and repeatedly developed substantial evidence involving: [i] Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's 1793 financial statement, prepared in response to a Senate order, which was itself issued under statutory authority; [ii] President Washington's accepting and keeping presents from foreign governments, absent congressional consent; [iii] the first Congress' statutory drafting conventions; [iv] as well as early scholarship. [read post]