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US has no head of state... Each branch has "checks and balances" they can use to limit the other branches' power to ensure no one branch becomes too powerful... 

Best part quoted above and almost all post below:

"...US has no head of state, technically speaking. There is a head of the executive branch of government, which is co-equal (in theory) with the legislative and judicial branches. Each branch has "checks and balances" they can use to limit the other branches' power to ensure no one branch becomes too powerful.

Of course, the reality is that they're all friends who are ultimately on the same team at this point, so that's moot, but in theory the US has no king, just a guy in charge of the federal executive branch, which is in theory not "above" the state governments except for a few things like national defense and interstate commerce."

- vic @vic seal.cafe/objects/c82d7dde-24e

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I think this part is genius and true:
" Each branch has "checks and balances" they can use to limit the other branches' power to ensure no one branch becomes too powerful..."

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