The welfare state is European in origin because its birth is commonly dated to late 19th century Germany. Around 1850, most industrializing capitalist countries already had some version of a modern poor law and had started to introduce labour protection measures (Polanyi [1944] 1957).
The correct answer is that the consitution increased the power of the President by giving hi the option of veto but as a check and balancesa decreased on the power of the presidency by giving congress the option of impeachement if the president does anything wrong.
