In the latter the publicdepartmentsexecute the law byinvestigating and prosecutingillegalbehaviors, andapplypunishmentsdirectly, fines and mulctowe to the countrynot to the victim.
The combination of a Democratic Congress and a Republican president could not possibly be worse, and might very well be better, than the current arrangement, in which a Republican executive and a Republican legislature conspire to mulct our money and filch our freedoms.