The executive branch is too powerful...

The executive branch is too powerful...  G. W. Bush and B. H. Obama have expanded the power of the executive branch to the point where it spends as it pleases, obeys (or disobeys) laws at its whim, and routinely exercises powers that the Constitution never gave it.  Here's the latest example.

This has happened twice before in American history: with Abraham Lincoln and with Franklin D. Roosevelt.  In both cases, subsequent administrations managed to significantly reign in the executive branch's powers, assumed during wartime or economic crisis.  Let's hope the next U.S. administration can start that process again...