Checks-and-balances political philosophy works in weird ways that the founding fathers would probably not have anticipated at all
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Yup. It's like they couldn't predict 240 yrs into the future. Shocker, that "originalists" don't seem to understand.
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i think they expected the power struggle to be between branches, not political parties
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im not sure they would make much sense of our state/local splits, either
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The Framers got lucky with a design that didn't do what they intended, but still worked fairly well




