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> >> >>Poppycock. The US system is astonishingly poor, not >>least because the founding fathers didn't understand >>human nature. > > >For an "Astonishingly poor" system it has worked >pretty damn well over the years. > > >Otherwise, they'd never have decreed >>that the Presidential candidate getting the second >>largest number of votes would be Vice-President - >>anyone see Kerry as VP to Bush in 2004? > >The idea of it originally was that it would not have >to operate in a party system and after the problem >with the Adams/Jefferson presidency-vice presidency >that was change for obvious reasons. > > >> >>And the system isn't just appallingly poor in it's >>original form, it's still terrible. The US doesn't >>separate Head of State from Head of Government. That's >>why Bush is so arrogant, he's top-dog and nobody can >>reign him in. It's a terrible system, directly >>equivalent to a dictatorship. > >You have no idea what you are talking about do you? >The President while powerful is far from a dictator. >He has no power to make war on his own, write laws, >raise taxes or funds, appropriate funds for programs, >his vetoes of laws can be overridden by the Congress >with enough votes or laws, executive orders, ect can >be declared unconstitutional by the courts. Most >people from other countries have a tendency to ascribe >to the President far more power than he actually has, >he is strong but each branch of government also has >very strong checks over the other branches. > > > >> >>And I don't need to go on about a system that makes >>prohibition an article of Constitutional faith or >>makes black men 3/5ths of a white man, thinking that >>that is "enlightened"! > > >A nothing like bright up old laws is there, I am sure >I can find a law or two from most countries from that >time period that are just as bad.
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