(December 23, 2020 at 12:54 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I don't believe the framers of the Constitution expected this kind of behavior from the executive and I'm pretty sure Washington would frown on it. Despite constructing a pretty good system of checks and balances, the capacity of humans to finagle and abuse power appears to be limitless.
I wuld say that the checks and balances were remarkably bad and the composers of the constitution should have foreseen the inevitable result, given what happened to their model the Roman Republic.
This result was an inevitability.
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