Lol suck. You guys should have just made so many checks and balances that the system is useless. Works out much better than Queens picking out there favorite friends for each country.
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Lol suck. You guys should have just made so many checks and balances that the system is useless. Works out much better than Queens picking out there favorite friends for each country.
Well, to be fair, how are our own checks and balances working in our favour right now?
Because it has put our government at a stalemate just like our forefathers intended! Haven't you ever read about the constitutional convention? They couldn't agree about anything and by the time it was over some were threatening to form a partition government. Its the American way :iamafag:Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
No. There is no stalemate. Congress has power over everything whether we like it or not. They can override a Presidential veto AND they can approve Justices.
Thats my point. Under the original bounds of the constitution 70% of the power resides within Congress. Thats why we made it bicameral. With so many members it is impossible for there to not be naysayers on any bill. Our government is built so that unless the bill is super moderate and watered down, or if its a time of crisis, it won't pass. Thats what the fore fathers wanted. A moderate government.Quote:
Originally Posted by Warsaw
That's not the point. The point is that the people in Congress can run the country into the ground as they want without consequence. They can prevent the necessary changes to government that would turn everything around.
What the founding fathers wanted was a government for the people, by the people. Now it's for Congress, by Congress. And don't even try to tell me that Congress represents the people who voted them in.
We are getting off topic now. Back to Canada.
I'm often glad that our 'founding fathers' were all drunks so we don't have all these useless arguments about what they would have wanted our country to look like
didnt see this thread. Voted NDP.
Shame they didn't win.
Why does that party name remind me of something? :v:
fun fact: their french acronym is in fact NPD