In other words, the President must be able to remove such officials in order to properly exercise his ôconstitutional duty of seeing that the laws be faithfully executed.ö
Myers, however, lasted fewer than 10 years. A unanimous Supreme Court narrowed the broad holding of Myers in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, a case that greatly limited the President's power over appointees. Humphrey's Executor involved the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), whose members serve seven-year terms. Congress created the FTC with the restriction that members could be dismissed before the end of their term only under cert
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