An insightful reader of this column, an exercise in civic education, recently suggested that readers may need to be persuaded of the importance to our nation of the restoration of a constitutional presidency. Why, indeed, should Americans rebuke the long rise, under both Democrats and Republicans, of presidential government, which is currently riding the rails of authoritarianism under Donald Trump, and embrace the concept of a chief executive, cabined by constitutional limitations, who will willingly comply with the metes and bounds of the office? In considering the essential “why?” behind this question, let’s consider the impact of a rehabilitated presidency on the lives of Americans and the life of America.

For starters, the question is akin to asking about the value of the rule of law

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