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Barack Obama

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama is concerned that both the House and the Senate could each hold complete control by majority rule, giving one party unchecked authority in either chamber. He believes this concentration of power goes against the original design of the founders, who intended for more balanced and shared governance.

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