The System Worked-Mostly

摘要

Whether or not you like the debt deal-and few people do-it does show that our constitutional system worked. Mostly, it's a messy, messy process, but the separation of powers built into the Constitution was designed to force compromise and allow a minority view to become the majoritarian policy. Here, we had one-half of one-third of the federal government (that is, the House) steering the entire ship.