From: Bill Lucy 

Well, sorta:


From Federalist No. 76:

To what purpose then require the co-operation of the Senate? I answer, that
the necessity of their concurrence would have a powerful, though, in
general, a silent operation. It would be an excellent check upon a spirit
of favoritism in the President, and would tend greatly to prevent the
appointment of unfit characters from State prejudice, from family
connection, from personal attachment, or from a view to popularity. . . .
He would be both ashamed and afraid to bring forward, for the most
distinguished or lucrative stations, candidates who had no other merit than
that of coming from the same State to which he particularly belonged, or of
being in some way or other personally allied to him, or of possessing the
necessary insignificance and pliancy to render them the obsequious
instruments of his pleasure.




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