Over at Commonweal, Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett has an article that is mostly bipartisan in its criticism of politicians in both parties for their willingness to do end-runs around the cumbersome legislative process. Instead of picking on Newt Gingrich, Garnett might have considered the Bush administration's penchant for signing statements. But, nonetheless, Garnett does an admirable job reclaiming an important point from the rantings of the Tea Partyers and the ambitions of executive branch officials: Our constitutional system was designed to be cumbersome.
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