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海軍少佐
The U.S. Constitution sets out the form of government for the U.S. so if you talk about one, you pretty much have to talk about the other.
The framers created a document which has been remarkably flexible over the past two hundred plus years. It is just as relevant today as it was when it was created.
The problems with the U.S. form of government have less to do with the Constitution and more to do with a basically two party system, a legislature which increasingly must rely on congressional staffers to do much of the work as the government becomes more complex, and a legislature which has become increasingly more out of touch with the people it purports to represent. My personal view, having had the chance to observe it for a very long time, is that politics on the national level has become more concerned with partisanship and what's good for the party than with what's good for the country. Another thing I've noticed is that we tend to do better when the President is from one party and the Congressinal majority is from the other party.
The framers created a document which has been remarkably flexible over the past two hundred plus years. It is just as relevant today as it was when it was created.
The problems with the U.S. form of government have less to do with the Constitution and more to do with a basically two party system, a legislature which increasingly must rely on congressional staffers to do much of the work as the government becomes more complex, and a legislature which has become increasingly more out of touch with the people it purports to represent. My personal view, having had the chance to observe it for a very long time, is that politics on the national level has become more concerned with partisanship and what's good for the party than with what's good for the country. Another thing I've noticed is that we tend to do better when the President is from one party and the Congressinal majority is from the other party.