 We have a separation of powers. We have co-equal branches of government. And let's not forget that the executive was not meant to be some wallflower. The executive, the president, is supposed to be the spirited part of government, supposed to be vigorous. This is explicitly what the framers of our Constitution called for. You see this throughout the Federalist. You see this in the text of the Constitution itself. And you see this in the very fact that they had to call for a constitutional convention because the initial version of the American Republic, the Articles of Confederation,