the institutions themselves. the framers did not want anyone to have enough power to go it alone because they could also commit great abuses. sure. i think in your testimony, you talked about early american presidents and how, you know, these days people go people have never been this gridlocked in our american history. that is not true. there have been gridlocked congress before and people have had to deal with it. you know, i m afraid that argument is rather fallacious. the framers designed this constitution for bad periods. they lived in such a period. these are people who were actually trying to kill each other. not figuratively. they were using the alien sedition act to arrest people. you don t get much more poisonous than that. it is an excuse, part of the all is fair in love and politics approach. what people don t seem to appreciate is policies change and so do