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Often appears with: suspensive veto · senate oversight of treaties · president elective and reelectable · monarchy and royal succession · assemblies, councils, and senates
Usually: description (1) · detachment (1)
Tocqueville describes the presidency as dependent on the people’s majority yet strong enough to act, emphasizing Senate oversight in appointments and foreign relations, plus the president’s suspensive veto.
the right of annulling g certain acts of the President; but it cannot compel him to take any steps, nor does it participate in the exercise of the executive power. The action of the legislature on the executive power may be direct; and we have just shown that the Americans carefully obviated this influence; but it may, on the other hand, be indirect. Public assemblies which have the power of depriving an officer of …