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designed to restrain power can no longer trust each other to perform that very function. The resulting paralysis in the Senate and the subsequent fury of a divided public reveal a system that is overwhelmed not just by the alleged abuses of one individual, but by a deeper, more corrosive infection of fear and mutual suspicion.
Ultimately, the scenario is less an indictment of a single leader and more a critique of the architecture of power. It serves as a stark warning that constitutions, no matter how brilliantly drafted, are not self-executing. They cannot save a nation if the people tasked with administering them abandon the principle
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