At 09:07 AM 8/31/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>First Daddy Bush became president, and later his son. I am honestly
>surprised that the US does not have a law against several generations of the
>same family occupying the White House.
>
>I mean, that does give an awful lot of power to just one family. What if
>later on one of his daughters would become president? That way, the Bush
>family would be on its way to become something similar to the Royal Families
>we have in Europe. (I know there is a word for one family running the
>country for generations, I just cannot remember it right now. Oligarchy?)
We don't have such a law, because we do not need to.
The President does not run the country, he simply runs the executive
branch. There is enough power vested in Congress, the Judiciary, and the
States to prevent the development of heridtary government.
JDG
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