“The Senate have the power of altering all money bills, and of
originating appropriations of money, and the salaries of the officers
of their own appointment, in conjunction with the President of the
United States; although they are not the representatives of the people
or amenable to them.—These, with their other great powers (viz. their
powers in the appointment of Ambassadors, and all public officers,
in making treaties and trying all impeachments) their influence upon
and connection with the supreme Executive, from these causes, their
duration of office, and their being a constant existing body almost
continually sitting, joined with their being one complete branch of the
legislature, will destroy any balance in the government, and enable
them to accomplish what usurpations they please upon the rights and
liberties of the people.”