How Congress Is Structurally Weaker than the President and the Judiciary
People commonly complain that Congress is doing too little, being too passive while the other branches are doing much more (for better or worse). There’s a lot to this complaint, I think.
But I think it’s also worth recognizing that this might stem in part from one weakness that Congress has relative to the other branches (without denying that it’s also stronger in various ways than the other branches): Congress is the only branch that has to operate as a supermajority.
The President is one person, and can make his own decisions. To be sure, the bureaucracy can stymie him, but he is at least formally in charge of the Executive Branch, and practically has a lot of authority over it.
The Supreme Court can make decisions by simple
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