Re:Federal Government Begins First Shutdown In 17 Years
by nknighthb on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:45AM
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The Westminster conventions your Constitution derived from are younger than the US Constitution (and your Constitution is about half the age of ours), and your Constitution was not written by a generation that had just fought a war to free itself from a monarchy. The Presidency was deliberately neutered, and the concept of blocking supply as a tool to thwart already-passed laws was not well-established.
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