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There are many legislatures in the world which lack the ability to write the laws they are required to pass. These are often called rubber stamp parliaments. A democratically-elected parliament without the power to make law is not a legislature. If Congress was powerless to make law but the democratic processes were all the same including the democratically elected president what we would have is an elected monarchy.

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