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The Constitution was, after all, written by people who had just fought a war to throw off an overreaching executive. No goal was more important to them than to
by curt15 10mo ago
The Constitution was, after all, written by people who had just fought a war to throw off an overreaching executive. No goal was more important to them than to prevent another one.
- stvltvs 10mo agoExcept they fumbled the ball by creating a unitary executive. I don't blame them too much because that's all they'd known, the US was a hundred times smaller, and they were making it up as they went. Democracy would be more resilient to an executive coup if its powers were split among several independently elected officials, like we see in some state governments today. Edit: This is what I'm referring to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_of_1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_of_1789
- TSiege 10mo agoThey did not create a unitary executive. The concept of a unitary executive as rule of law did not exist until a 2020 decision by the John Robert's court
- stvltvs 10mo agoUnitary in the sense that they debated whether to have one guy in charge or several. They defaulted back to what they knew, the rule of one dude with limited but sole executive power. Edit: This is what I'm referring to and it has direct bearing on the current controversy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_of_1789 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_of_1789