I understand that you have a pronoun problem.....because I understand quite well what I'm talking about. (Never assume you know who you are talking to on the Internet, or what you THINK they know. Because 90% of the time you are going to be wrong.) 1. The President runs the EXECUTIVE branch of the government...and because of Seperation of Powers...there is very little that Congress and The Supreme Court (Legislative and Judicial Branches) can do to limit that authority. Congress provides Oversight...and has the ability to cut off funding. The SCOTUS....has SOME authority to call the Executive to heel when it feels the Constituion ahs been violated. But the when that can be invoked...and the Judicial branch's ability to ENFORCE its will is MURKY..and never been tested. In fact the ability of the Congress to remove a President from office via Impeachement has never really been tested. Johnson and Clinton were acquitted. Nixon resigned to avoid being humiliated. 2. Separation of powers ONLY works if the people running the government put tribal and partisan agendas aside. In 1974, the GOP did that. They reached across the aisle, joined with Democrats to push an out-of-control President out of office. But today's GOP is a group that puts partisanship and having control of the country and the government above all other concerns. Not only did the Republican Congress FAIL in its responsibility to oversee the Bush (44) Administration...they were little more than a rubber stamp. 3. If Separation of Powers is lost to partisanship and win-at-all-costs authoritarian politics.....then ALL bets are off. The Presidency now has the potential to become disproportionately powerful. In fact the entire governing philosophy of the Bush years was BUILT around the notion of the President being what many considered Unconsittionally powerful. Google "The Unitary Executive". Power once taken, is almost never given back. Other constitutional protections now come into jeopardy....and the reach and scope of the Executive functions of Governent------FBI, CIA, NSA, Justice Department, IRS, the Miltiary, just to name a few-----now become the potential sources of great mischief..... ...and even possible oppression. [i]Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.” [/i] IOW. The arrogant assumption that you could never LOSE your democracy IS THE FIRST STEP TO LOSING IT. Because it creates the environment that allows those power-hungry forces that exist in every society to slowly tear down and undermine the very structures that limit their power, and protects freedom. It CAN happen here.