11.   As a guard against corruption, a permanent auditing system was to monitor the workings of the executive branch of government.

12.   In addition to naming his Cabinet, Clinton also revealed his choice for key executive branch offices.

13.   Except where the bureaucracy rules through the military and so itself constitutes the executive branch of government, the executive and bureaucracy should not be confused.

14.   Amid these shifting power relationships remains an enduring concern of the executive branch, its prerogative to fill the government with its own selections.

15.   Amid this disaffection and disunity, power resides with the apparatchiks in the executive branch.

16.   And Gore was able to position loyalists throughout the executive branch.

17.   And he has vowed to take executive action to restrict the lobbying of executive branch employees as well as to curb smoking and cigarette sales to minors.

18.   And it is not at all clear whether Congress can compel the executive branch to grant political asylum to people who do not qualify.

19.   And he directed the attorney general to draft an executive order preventing anyone who has not disclosed their clients from lobbying the executive branch.

20.   And thereby, radically shifted the balance of power between the executive branch and the legislative branch of government.