To remove any one of these checks and balances could destroy the Republic -- in this case, we become a Police State.
We are a police state.
Just read the headlines. A teenager is watching the Food Channel and Bam, here comes the SWAT Team. Or rather, Boom there goes the stun grenade, followed by the men in black.
A family from Deming, NM has been held in a Las Cruces jail for months. No charges, no bail. They operated a mom and pop gun shop.
I could go on.