 people have been happy to consolidate power in the president and not, and to cede it in Congress. But this was the founder's greatest fear, because both Hamilton and Jefferson are centrally afraid of a Caesar on horseback who's gonna come in, flatter the people, offer them cheap luxury in exchange for giving up their liberty, and consolidate power and refuse to leave office. There's an amazing letter from Thomas Jefferson where he says his main objection to the Constitution, he writes this to James Madison,