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Expansion Of Our Founding Powers

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I agree with your post because I do think that our founding father would not agree on the expansion of powers of the president. The three branches of our government was created by our founding father in order to balance out the power of the president, so that neither one branch can have too much power over the nation. When they crafted this idea they had seen other country where there is only one prime minister (North Korea and Russia for example) that overseen every action of a nation which the power was too powerful and decision making can be challenging for the citizens when they cannot vote on new law and regulation.

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