Our constitutional structure easily beats our parliamentary competitors, writes carringtonam.
In a recent piece for National Review, Dan McLaughlin ably defended the benefits of our system in having established terms for presidents and congressmen, as well as the two-party structure our Constitution privileges through the Electoral College. But our system does much more — it also helps our government to run safer and better once our elected officials begin exercising their constitutional duties.
By combining legislative and executive into one body, and even one office, this system neglects the insight so central to the U.S. Constitution: that governments should be structured according to the separation of powers. Many know the threat to liberty this combination holds. The French 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed that when the powers of lawmaking and law-enforcing are held within a singular institution, genuine moderation is destroyed — and, with it, liberty.
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