Триумфы и испытания системы сдержек и противовесов США. Лекция Александры Филиппенко

"Triumphs and Trials of the US System of Checks and Balances: 250 Years Before the Trump Era" This lecture by Alexandra Filippenko, PhD in history and former research fellow at the Institute of the USA and Canada at the Russian Academy of Sciences, explores the history of the American system of checks and balances, from Andrew Jackson's Bank War through the Watergate scandal to the Trump era. The system has overcome difficulties and supported democracy, but will it hold up today, in a polarized country with a Republican trifecta? "When Congress is in session, the country feels the same way you feel when you see a child with a hammer. The only question is how much damage the child can do before the hammer can be taken away. These little fellows have wreaked record destruction in the last eighteen months." (Will Rogers, satirist and actor, letter to the New York Times, July 1930)