"It was fashionable at the end of the 1970s, after a dreary parade of presidential failures punctuated by Jimmy Carter, to say the presidency had grown too unwieldy. The historian Barbara Tuchman spoke for all the academic and journalistic believers in the theory of the impossible presidency when she mused, "Maybe some form of plural executive is needed, such as they have in Switzerland."
Ah, yes, the wonders of the plural executive. Why didn't that occur to James Madison?"
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