volkris@Hyolobrika Oh, it’s one of the main areas I nerd out on, so I could talk about it all day 🙂
I also think it’s fascinating to contrast the US system against the UK system, the role that the written Constitution plays in contrast to the British system of fundamental law.
If you’re really interested I could suggest some readings, particularly from the federalist papers, a set of documents written by the people who wrote the US Constitution explaining exactly what they were thinking and how they imagined the US system functioning.
But yeah, in a sentence the US president has absolutely no authority that hasn’t been granted to him by the Constitution plus the Congress. Any action he attempts to take that is not granted by both is illegal and anybody carrying out such orders would be carrying out illegal orders.
So it doesn’t matter how much a president might want to be a dictator. The entire massive institution that is the federal government is structured such that dictatorial leanings would be smothered.
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