One of the ways our Constitution provides for a “more perfect” union is by establishing a variety of checks and balances on federal government power.
But a nation that can be “more perfect” can also become “less perfect,” and advocates for the elimination of those checks and balances are heating up the water in the proverbial pot.
Frogs, pay attention.
Among the least noted of these safeguards are the distinct methods by which the Founders determined legislative, executive, and judicial branch officials would come to power: House members elected by popular vote; senators elected by their respective state legislatures; presidents sworn in after a vote of the Electoral College; and members of the judiciary appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Thus, not only were checks and balances set up between the different branches of…
