Judicial review is a function of Congress.
That should be a function of the Senate, and the senators should be appointed from the pools of state judges.
Do you have any ideas for fixing the government, like that?
Nice, simple, and easy to recognize the reasoning is what we are looking for to help the dwebes around here to see the light.
The different departments that constitute the executive cabinet are of course extremely powerful but they can be strictly controlled by congress....they make the laws and budgets. So no....I'm not silly.
Yes, you are silly. You see, the power is in the law. The balance of power is in the distribution of the law. It appears that the power is in the legislature because they "make the law," but they are not wielding any laws except by partisan control of the assembly and committees. And that does not seem to be very good. If Biden is corrupt - why is it taking so long?
The legislature's checks on power are supposed to be from the ambition of the legislature, but that is thwarted by the ambitions of the parties to control the three branches - its not that difficult to figure out.
The formulation of the legislature fails to dissipate the factions that we have. The Founders were able to dissipate the physical factions of state populations, and slavery, but they were unable to understand how to dissipate, or control, what would form the factions that emerged; and so, they are formed in error to work in an erroneous governing system. There was not enough information back then, and from your standpoint - there still is no practical idea to control the factions properly. At best, proportional voting, or some other way of controlling the elections; but that is not going to work.
The political factions are formed in the legislatures, and because of the mathematics, legislatures are inclined to cycle into a duopoly; and because of the various other inadequacies, including the 17th Amendment, the guiding principle of the subsisting factions is to win elections and populate the three branches with politically aligned personnel. The parties' guiding principles are not abstract ideals of economics, or social justice, although they claim to do so; and for the most part, they defend those abstract ideals. But if something happens that creates a grievance bloc, the parties are inclined to pander to that bloc somehow - right? And if that means throwing a couple of other grievance blocs under the bus - they do it. And they do it without us knowing, because it is way too difficult for working people to follow and do that check on power.
We need a more sophisticated system of separation and checks on power.
The proper control on the political parties is by specifying the mission of the legislatures, and then the qualification standards - state judiciary for the Senate.
Yes, the Founders did the best that they could with what little information they had, but political science has let you down, and I am delivering the paradigm.