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And I maintain it is because they have not been allowed to do so. How's that? Under a Democrat PotUS?
Yes, but what we fail to understand is that the PotUS is not "King" in our tripartite system of governance (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) - and they were were intended expressly to give a "balance of power"? Whyzzat?
Because prior to the US, European monarchs maintained absolute power, even over the judiciary. And they used their influence in order to protect their monarchies. Which is why the framers of our constitution insisted upon sharing powers amongst the three branches of government.
Can't happen in a democracy? Oh yes it can!
How? When all three powers reside in just one national party, that party most definitely can appropriate all three powers to force into law their own political venues. As we shall see ...
His victory threatens old certainties about America and its role in the world. What will take their place?
The fact of Mr Trump’s victory and the way it came about are hammer blows both to the norms that underpin politics in the United States and also to America’s role as the world’s pre-eminent power. At home, an apparently amateurish and chaotic campaign has humiliated an industry of consultants, pundits and pollsters. If, as he has threatened, President Trump goes on to test the institutions that regulate political life, nobody can be sure how they will bear up. Abroad, he has taken aim at the belief, embraced by every post-war president, that America gains from the often thankless task of being the global hegemon. If Mr Trump now disengages from the world, who knows what will storm through the breach?
The sense that old certainties are crumbling has rocked America’s allies. The fear that globalisation has fallen flat has whipsawed markets. Although post-Brexit Britons know what that feels like, the referendum in Britain will be eclipsed by consequences of this election. Mr Trump’s victory has demolished a consensus. The question now is what takes its place.
Start with the observation that America has voted not for a change of party so much as a change of regime. Mr Trump was carried to office on a tide of popular rage. This is powered partly by the fact that ordinary Americans have not shared in their country’s prosperity.
And I maintain it is because they have not been allowed to do so. How's that? Under a Democrat PotUS?
Yes, but what we fail to understand is that the PotUS is not "King" in our tripartite system of governance (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) - and they were were intended expressly to give a "balance of power"? Whyzzat?
Because prior to the US, European monarchs maintained absolute power, even over the judiciary. And they used their influence in order to protect their monarchies. Which is why the framers of our constitution insisted upon sharing powers amongst the three branches of government.
Can't happen in a democracy? Oh yes it can!
How? When all three powers reside in just one national party, that party most definitely can appropriate all three powers to force into law their own political venues. As we shall see ...