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But isn’t that kind of the point of our system of government? If legislation can’t be passed, there is a reason for that.
I think I may have opened a can of worms here.
Yes and no - the history of the presidency, for example, has been a story of expansion of unilateral executive authority, but of course there is constraint (in theory). If we use wars as a parallel, think of the last declared war - that was WWII. The post-9/11 era has led to huge executive power expansion, (debatably) necessarily so: legislatures debate when people are dying in the streets, somebody arguing for more executive power might argue.