Won’t bend the knee to party bosses
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison in The Federalist Papers, Number 47
Americans devised a representative republic instead of a parliamentary system to ensure a strict separation of powers, prevent centralized authority, and safeguard individual liberty. In parliamentary systems, voters primarily elect parties in blocs, and those parties, not the people, choose the head of government – concentrating power within party leadership.
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