Certainly, it can limit the power of government as an entity, but you specifically stated that they set up the government for the express purpose of limiting expansion of federal power. That is not accurate. The reason it was implemented was instead because they did not want one person making any decision - many…

Oh definitely, but I'm betting the conviction couldn't have been addressed because it hadn't happened yet during filming. So what's in the movie inevitably lagged behind what is happening in the real world.

The checks and balances were implemented not to control federal expansion of power but to control the actual implementation of power, in that they exist to limit the amount of autonomy any specific branch of government has. This was done with the goal of preventing an autocrat, not limiting the power of government as…

In the defense of the reviewer, it was likely still an arrest when filming took place - that conviction actually took place very recently didn't it?

"Far be it from me to insist slavish adherence to every law, no matter how silly, but now I'm going to do that."

The real question is how Bob Saget managed to do FX work while also starring in Full House.

It's not their fault they're in Newfoundland!

My local store did! Take THAT!

Buzzfeed is entirely original in its lists of quotes from the '90s.

It's basically like a live action roadrunner cartoon, which is a great thing.

Haven't the Philippines suffered enough?

Wasn't the 2600 8-bit but shitty?

My thermostat is set at 19 because I'm a spendthrift.

Fun fact, Charmin apparently is awful for your sewer lines (a man who cleans sewer lines told me this.)

Every time a terrible decades later sequel is canned an angel gets his wings.

It will be marginally less homoerotic than a Top Gun TV show.

The Hat Company shares have rocketed up after this announcement.

Is this a conscious attempt to undermine Aziz Ansari's "Black people are amazed by magic tricks" stereotype?

Eventually Forks will be big enough to merge with Spoons and there will be Sporks, WA.

When Harry Met All Those Prostitutes