is the separation of powers and checks and balances created in the constitution working the way the framers?

Question

envisioned?

Answer 1

The presidency has gained power far beyond that which the framers of the constitution would have found tolerable.
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Answer 2

For once, I disagree with coragryph. I think it is working amazing well considering that it was devised over 200 years ago. Most constitutional governments would have been scrapped by now.

I think the most significant event was Marbury v Madison where the Supreme Court chimed in and determined that they weren't going to be pushed around by the executive or the legislative branch. And they declared that they were going to do some pushing themselves.

Is it working the way it was intended? No, not exactly. But it's doing okay.

As far Bush's attempt for a unitary executive, THIS TOO WILL PASS as soon as Bush is out of office and/or our Congress reads the Constitution and realizes that they don't have to take his abuse..

Answer 3

Congress is abusing powers
The liberals started it with filibustering Presidential nominee's. Abusing his right and duty to appoint judges.

Now the want congressional oversight over who the president hires or fires. This is what you call smear campaigns.


When you read the constitution plainly as it was intended the current president has not overstepped his constitutional privileges.
The libs are trying to smear him so they can get elected. The have nothing to offer but "we are not Bush"

The Supreme and other courts have been attempting to deny the people liberty by legislating from the bench. Issues such as abortion and religion should be decided on a state by state basis and left out the federal government.

Answer 4

No,and they were gone much further back than others conjecture.But Fabian Socialism is a clever ploy that keeps most people unaware of what is taking place until the boot stomps on their faces.1865-1879 were crucial years in undoing the Constitutional Republic and degenerating it into a mob rule Democracy.But it was Hoover and FDR that put the final nails in the coffin for our erstwhile great nation.

Answer 5

Not a chance in hell. But that's a good thing because slowly Americans are waking up and one day when the government goes too far, all those who own guns will decide to have a 2nd American Revolution. Let them keep destroying the Constitution.

They are just digging their own graves.

Answer 6

once you provide one individual/workplace each and all the skill, there is no longer something to maintain that individual/workplace from behaving in a corrupt trend in the event that they so %. by way of seperating out skill into 3 branches of government (President, Congress, and the preferrred courtroom), the persons are better shielded from tyrinical habit. All 3 branches of government are equivalent, so one won't be able to trump yet another one. Congress can create rules into being, yet desires the president to sign them to lead them to artwork. a miles better majority can override a presidential veto. The president can sign rules into being or veto them, yet won't be able to create them. He can in basic terms recommend them. The preferrred courtroom can invalidate rules, yet won't be able to create them. without those assessments and balances, the president might effectively exchange right into a dictator that would run the rustic as they please. The founders of our us of a have been seeking to flee purely this type of style of government while they wrote the form.

Answer 7

No -- it was broken when the two dominant political parties started taking over power decades ago -- and was completely thrown out the window the past 5 years in pursuit of the "unitary executive" (dictatorship) model promoted by Bush.

Answer 8

coragray.... well said