Perhaps I phrased this incorrectly. Allow me to reiterate. The two party system does not place a check over another branch simply because of a difference in political belief or for tyrannous action. Rather, more due to political alignment and not in the correct way the framers had intended it to be. A two party system implies that you choose a side, and do all that you can to work against the other regardless of the matter in order to appease your party and to gain a higher position in the federal bureaucracy in some cases. If one side says yes on a bill, the other is likely to say no just to combat their counterpart. Not because its what they think, but because it's what their party thinks. This happens in both parties, which is the reason why the two party system is so flawed. Every vote on legislation should be done individually by the senators and representatives of their state; in thinking of how this will benefit the people of their state and the nation of the whole, or how it will not. Unfortunately, this is not the case in our politics. Murcia'!