yes, it explicitly is. But the downside of this midterm arrangement that you can end up (almost always) with a President and Congress pulling in opposite directions–thus not getting anything done.
It is interesting to add, that the allies also dismissed the British non constitution and its archaic unrepresentative and undemocratic first pass the post system. It was the greatest service along with the Marshall Plan that the Allies could do for a war ravaged Germany. Now if they did the same for Iraq and Afghanistan maybe the Middle East wouldn’t be in such a mess.
