Thread: President of the US of A

Originally Posted by honedright

The "ingenious system of checks and balances" is not reflective of a bureaucracy in the case of the US, but refers, I believe, to the system carefully designed to balance the powers of the three branches of government. Very different.

Or not all that different when you take into account that a 'system carefully designed to balance the powers' is only a dead concept until it is implemented through a robust bureaucracy.