Your analogy is flawed in that Samsung is a private entity which owes no accountability to anyone other than its shareholders. But government here is a res publica, that is a public matter. Executive authority necessitates hierarchical structures as a purely practical matter, but the notion that executive authority should be unlimited is untenable - as a practical matter.
Edit: of course Samsung has obligations towards regulators and those governmental entities whose issuance of a charter permit it a corporate existence, but I think you get the point I'm making.
In my view the Constitution is on life support and has been for some time, most notably when the Senate last year abrogated its constitutional duty to advise the President by even granting his nominee a hearing; they could have voted against every nominee Obama presented but that legislative body had an obligation to at least examine said nominees.
I don't wish to have a long argument about politics here on HN but I will say that I think the US is headed towards and existential crisis and that the results of the last election affect only the timing of that.
Edit: of course Samsung has obligations towards regulators and those governmental entities whose issuance of a charter permit it a corporate existence, but I think you get the point I'm making.
In my view the Constitution is on life support and has been for some time, most notably when the Senate last year abrogated its constitutional duty to advise the President by even granting his nominee a hearing; they could have voted against every nominee Obama presented but that legislative body had an obligation to at least examine said nominees.
I don't wish to have a long argument about politics here on HN but I will say that I think the US is headed towards and existential crisis and that the results of the last election affect only the timing of that.