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What the Constitution doesn’t say about checks and balances is that the branches have to make it work for it to work. Congress has to hold the president to account through oversight and by withholding consent to unqualified appointments. The president has to veto bills he thinks are wrongheaded or that the country cannot afford in some way. The Courts have to truly be independent—judges must be loyal not to the person who appointed them but to the country and the Constitution. The founders expected checks and balances to hold even if a single party held Congress and the White House; they would have chosen a parliamentary system if they wanted the Congress to rubberstamp executive action or the Courts to take partisan sides.

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Figure 2.2 Amending the Constitution