[SauronOfMordor]

As originally set up under the Constitution, judges had little real power, because they could be ignored if they issued a stupid decree. The President had the power to fire and replace any federal bureaucrats who obeyed a judge instead of him.

Similarly, the President had little real power, because he was not given a massive army of armed bureaucrats to impose his will. He had to depend on getting voluntary cooperation.

[Hugh the Scot]

I certainly have no disagreement with your points.

The Constitution is regularly trampled by bureaucrats, unelected judges, political lackeys and intelligence agencies... I just don’t see anything in the proposal to change some “mere words on paper” that will suddenly change that.

Holding the bastards to their oaths of office would be a better first step.

[jeffc]

"As originally set up under the Constitution, judges had little real power..."

And, there, I think, is the heart of the problem with our American Republic. It is the Judiciary that has slowly but inexorably assumed more and more power, in direct violation of the Constitution's balance of power.

We are now, it seems, a Judicial Oligarchy...

[AndyJackson]

the President had little real power, because he was not given a massive army of armed bureaucrats to impose his will.

Like in the Whiskey Rebellion?