... couple of decades between the two presidents, the executive branch seized increasing power "at the expense" of the other two branches of government. Franklin D Roosevelt willingly and repeatedly violated the sanctity of the checks and balances system with exemption from punishment simply because of his popularity. ... the writers believed that the excess power of the British monarch "represented a fatal flaw" (pg. 4) in Great Britain's system of government. As designed by the Constitution's framers, they strongly believed that only Congress could exercise the life and death power to decla...

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