One of the big virtues of the American system is that it allows itself to be changed. But changing our system, i.e. amending the Constitution, requires a supermajority of three-quarters of the states. That’s a bigger supermajority than what’s needed to override a veto, and it’s a bigger supermajority than what’s needed to convict and remove an impeached president. So while change of the system is possible, it’s very difficult; it takes a “super-consensus,” and that’s a good thing. However, there are those who will have no truck with that nonsense. For them, all that’s needed for change is a telephone and a pen. For those Americans who are fond of an imperial presidency, this must be the best of times, a veritable Golden Age; for constitutionalists, not so much. It’s been said that Barack Hussein Obama is the president Richard Milhous Nixon wanted to be. But the initial crimes of Watergate only affected the Democrat...(Read Full Article)