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I wish to hell I could remember where, but I read a pretty compelling article saying that Cheney may be correct - that the Constitutional duties laid out for the VP only deal with legislative duties. Obviously that brings up the point that our working understanding of the Veep's office is seriously misaligned with that perspective.
I do think there is an operative distinction that needs to be made here: what you call it is irrelevant in a way, but no office or branch should be making law and enforcing it. That the executive branch gets to make policy that supports and carries out the law seems to be seriously confused with the authority to actually make laws.
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