Abolish the Office of the President?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. There was a lot of talk about that in the 1700's, and after the failure of...

the Articles of Confederation. And one of the main reasons for failure was the lack of a powerful national leader.

So, when they wrote the Constitution, they gave us a President with what they thought was appropriate powers. They also unified the head of state and head of government functions. (Britain has the Queen as head of state, the Prime minister as head of government)

As the nation grew, it turned out that the president could amass more power than a divided congress often could. Andrew Jackson pretty much ran roughshod over Congress and showed everyone how to do it.

Impeachment was intended to be difficult so the president wouldn't be tossed out over some temporary disagreement, and giving the power to enact laws to congress was supposed to reduce presidential power.

It's not perfect, but is there another solution?