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Gridlock in government1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() They separated the executive from legislature, and required that legislation gain the approval of both houses of Congress as well as the President. The framers of the constitution were very sensitive to minority rights, particularly the rights of the oldest and most paranoid minority of them all - the rich. The United States was a deeply divided society at its birth, and citizens in some states did not believe there should be a federal government at all. Some of the answers can be found at the very beginning of the American constitution. ![]() How can a minority of legislators in one house of one branch of the government defeat popular legislation on behalf of an even tinier minority of Americans who are convinced that the government wants to round up gun owners and put them in camps? Last Thursday, this measure failed to pass the United States Senate, despite having the support of a majority of Senators. 91% of Americans support President Obama’s proposal that criminal background checks should be required for all sales of guns. The recent failure to implement popular gun control measures in the wake of the Newtown massacre is a poignant example. For all its international power, the United States government seems increasingly powerless to make laws for the benefit of its own people. ![]()
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