when they wrote the constitution which was to make the legislative power central said that if a demagogue was ever finally to be stopped it would happen on the floor of the united states senate because of the conviction power. and so that is the last arena. and there are a couple of things here just to think about. you know, the american presidency since world war ii, and then what happened in august of 1945 with the ushering in of the nuclear age has become unimaginably powerful. it's going to skip to the framers and say to madison and hamilton, you know, the presidency was going to be like this because it was just a different universe. after world war ii we had the power to end the world. but all of those occupants of that office, roosevelt, truman, eisenhower, kennedy, carter,