“If the Republic, created in 1787, had depended on it’s survival entirely on the constitutional machinery, designed by the Founders, it probably would not have endured. That machinery has been copied by many other nations, notably those of Latin America, but in virtually no other country have devices such as federalism, an elected president, a bicameral legislature, and the separation of powers produced a political system capable of both effective government and the protection of liberty.” American Government, The Essentials, 2004.