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But influence is not the same as power. Influence is a form of voluntary persuasion.

I agree that all of these are undesirable, but if our politicians were forced to obey the Constitution and weren't ever given this power in the first place, it would hardly matter because they wouldn't be able to influence the politicians to do anything.

Your complaint is about government having too much power.

But it isn't even supposed to come down to that! They're not supposed to be able to do those kind of things in the first place!

You and I disagree on the value of government having power. I see it as a problem of transparency, rather than as a problem of who has the power. That's OK by me. It's not really going to be resolved here.