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There is plenty of blame going around for government inaction with respect to the most important issues facing our nation. The blamed include Super PACs, the media, the Republicans, the Democrats, President Obama, Speaker Boehner and many others, each decried as the most significant perpetrators of our current government’s inefficiency and inaction.

The big culprits are actually the Founding Fathers who did two things: they intentionally created three co-equal branches of government to make certain that in America, no single entity could control the whole system. The disenfranchisement and tyranny experienced under the British monarchy made them especially concerned with limiting the power of the Executive thus the American system was a direct attempt to institutionalize a weaker central government. Other democratic forms of government such as parliamentary systems are not so shackled.

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