You know where the machinery of government moves very quickly indeed?"Obama's advantage of course is he'll have the House and the Senate working with him, and that makes it easier," said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. "But even then, having an immediate impact is very difficult to do because the machinery of government doesn't move that quickly."
Dictatorships.
Checks and balances slow things down. We like them for that reason.