THERE'S TROUBLE IN RIVER CITY, AND THAT RIVER IS THE POTOMIC: CONGRESSIONAL-PRESIDENTIAL STAGNATION

This paper proposes to examine the current forces that divide the Obama Administration and the U. S. Congress. This potential malfunction of democracy was present from the outset of the Republic and now contemporary politics and ideologies have brought that underlying constitutional nightmare to a head, despite the safeguards provided by the framers of the U. S. Constitution.