(December 24, 2020 at 10:28 am)Spongebob Wrote:(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.
Well then they must have been blind, because political parties were older than the country. What they didn't anticipate, in reality, was that ordinary Joe Soaps would demand a share of power. They thought the counyry squires would run the country in perpetuity, an unbroken line of Trumps down through the centuries.
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