(December 24, 2020 at 8:30 am)Nomad Wrote: 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.
It seems like the biggest failure of the system is that the framers didn't anticipate the emergence of political parties and how that would corrupt an otherwise sound division of powers. They concentrated on keeping ultimate power out of the hands of one individual or one group, but they didn't foresee the power that a single party could wield if it controlled the white house and large chunks of the legislative and judicial branches.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller