Our Presidents, contrary to their campaigns and acolytes, are not elected as Kings or even, as President Biden seemed to imply at his September 1, 2022 "Nuremberg" speech, as The Leader. We elect Presidents to faithfully enforce the laws we assent to through our elected representatives. Our President is expected to voice priorities and policies sought not via executive or bureaucratic fiat but via Congress. This is precisely why almost twice as many words were dedicated in the Constitution to describe the duties, powers, and limits of the Legislative branch as that of the Executive, and why the authors of the Federalist Papers, in explaining the meaning and intents of that Constitution, assigned the greatest powers to the Legislative branch, and the least to the Judiciary. Their arguments in favor of ratifying the new Constitution clearly stated that the three branches of government were not "coequal" but existed with very limited powers granted by the people that allowed checks and …
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