10-08-2018, 05:34 PM
(10-08-2018, 05:31 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It was the intention of the Senate, however it did not stop there. I also think you're underestimating the power of the executive branch as initially defined. While certainly not as powerful then as now, it was by no means as impotent as you seem to be suggesting.
At the time? Yeah it was. The real power of the executive really didn't grow until the bureaucracy grew around it. During the founding of our country the president's political power within the country was minute.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
