• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And it was also designed so that States would have most of the power, not the Federal government.

    Yeah, but then we changed it because of the civil war…

    The system was designed for the president to be a mostly performative figurehead. Then we gave the president real power, but left determination like the president didn’t matter.