I’m less sure practically speaking how we can reign in the war powers problem.

idk if you have any concrete ideas on what to do, I’d love to hear them

The spirit of the idea was that we needed people with skills and expertise to draft and write regulations, or to approve drugs for sale.

I think this is still relevant today, but as you’ve said on the podcast continuing to vest power into one person is just continuing down our path to becoming rome

All of the rule writing parts of agencies, could be moved back under congress.

They chose to delegate that authority to the executive but they could just as easily move that authority back into congress

Prior to those changes, random committee chairmen would control where parks could be built and such.

So it certainly seems within congressman power to move a lot of what the executive branch does today back under their control.

They could, for example, move the OMB entirely within congress

One interesting historical tidbit on executive power that I learned reading the power broker last year (thanks @99pi.org !) was how the good government movement reorganized state governments starting with NY in the early 20th century.

The concepts of departments, executive budget, etc all from then

For example, other than spinelessness, I don’t think there is anything constitutionally stopping congress from removing the ability to declare emergencies from the presidency and instead vesting it in the speaker of the house of a standing select committee or whatever it wanted.