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by pvg 3370 days ago
Nothing. He should be able to do nothing. That's the point of having three branches of government

No it isn't. It's not a system in which one branch can fully incapacitate another. The goal is still governing, not doing nothing. Recall that this isn't the founders' first pass at organizing a government and in part a response to a previous one not being able to get much done.