Founding America: Documents From The Revolution To The Bill Of Rights - Plot & Excerpts
They spent much of the next ten days wrestling with an array of questions relating to the election and tenure of the executive (eventually called the president). Then, after two months of deliberations, the convention recessed, instructing a committee of detail to convert the resolutions it had adopted thus far into a working constitution. Their report, delivered on August 6, set the framework for the remaining six weeks of debate. The most significant development during this final phase was the gradual enlargement of executive power. Into early August, the future presidency remained largely a cipher. It was the Senate, for example, that was expected to make treaties and appointments to other major executive and judicial offices. But once the convention took up the report of the committee of detail, it began to augment executive power. Two debates of August 17 and 23—the first concerned with the power to initiate war, the second with the negotiation of treaties—illustrate this development.
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