Everywhere you look Congress is collapsing. Seriously, what is the point?

The legislature has allowed for decades of executive growth. The worst part is, this is just the start.

As soon as Donald Trump moved into the White House commentators were put into an existential panic about the role of the executive branch in government. Some even suggest that another four years of President Trump could permanently re-shape the very fabric of American society; re-defining two and a half centuries of Constitutional and political practice in just eight short years. I argue, however, that the rotting began a long time ago.

As the Executive’s power has grown, the legislature’s has shrunk. Whatever side you are on, whatever party you support, something that we can all agree on is that the legislative authority no longer ‘necessarily predominates’, as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51. Madison was not alone in his preference for legislative deference.

Thomas Jefferson feared that a central government would become so powerful that the executive would be the sole engine of government. Benjamin Franklin thought similar, so instead suggested multiple chief executives — perhaps as many as three (imagine that). With Franklin and Madison, George Mason attempted to incorporate some form of…