This fact can be observed in Thomas Nast's cartoon Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1866 (American Horizons Volume II:164). ... Georges Clemenceau, a French journalist who covered the Reconstruction, wrote about the legislative branch in his notes, "Contrary to all that has happened, is happening, and will happen in certain countries, the legislative power here has the upper hand. ...

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