Federalist No. 67

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Federalist No. 67

Alexander Hamilton, author of Federalist No. 67
Author	Alexander Hamilton
Original title	The Executive Department
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	The New York Packet
Publication date	March 11, 1788
Media type	Newspaper
Preceded by	Federalist No. 66
Followed by	Federalist No. 68

Federalist No. 67 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the sixty-seventh of The Federalist Papers. This essay's title is "The Executive Department" and begins a series of eleven separate papers discussing the powers and limitations of that branch. Federalist No. 67 was published under the pseudonym Publius, like the rest of the Federalist Papers. It was published in the New York Packet on Tuesday, March 11, 1788.^[1]

In this paper, Hamilton distinguishes between the president's constitutionally limited executive powers and the far more extensive powers of a monarch as a ruler. He also chastises opponents of the Constitution who claim the U.S. President is granted excessive power by being allowed to fill vacancies in the U.S. Senate. Hamilton points out that this is a misreading, as the President's power applies to vacancies of executive officers, which does not include the Senate.