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The Westminster conventions your Constitution derived from are younger than the US Constitution (and your Constitution is about half the age of ours), and your
by nknighthb 13y ago
The Westminster conventions your Constitution derived from are younger than the US Constitution (and your Constitution is about half the age of ours), and your Constitution was not written by a generation that had just fought a war to free itself from a monarchy. The Presidency was deliberately neutered, and the concept of blocking supply as a tool to thwart already-passed laws was not well-established.