Comment by keernan
3 days ago
>>This would be enforced how
Bingo. The flaw in the constitution. The Executive holds the only enforcement mechanism in government: the FBI, military and other police forces.
Having majored in political science as an undergrad and then being a trial attorney for 40+ years, I would argue that my use of the word 'flaw' is probably misplaced. 'Flaw' implies it could (should) have been created differently.
Alas, I am unaware of ever reading a workable way to 'fix' our constitutional 'flaw'.
One possible solution is to intentionally introduce Ancient Rome's "Brittania Problem".
Specifically, fund a distant vassal state which requires a military so enormous to maintain peace that any general in charge of said military would pose a legitimate threat to the executive back home.
Enforcement could, then, simply be accomplished by Congress, et al. incentivizing said general to stage his coup.
Now that I think of it... this could be one practical way to accomplish something akin to Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution".