US President's Loyal Opposition

What if the Founding Fathers bowed to the inevitability of political parties, and designed the President to have a foil?

Say the largest party that does not control the Presidency gets to select from their House and Senate ranks a Speaker of Congress, who is akin to the leader of the Loyal Opposition in a Parliamentary system.

The President is therefore forced to answer to Congress once a week or month or something, where he is questioned by the Speaker.

Does this work? Possible?
 
No. It once was the case that the second largest EC vote earner in the presidential elections became the VP. Once parties developed, such a figure was generally in a different party from the President.
 
No. It once was the case that the second largest EC vote earner in the presidential elections became the VP. Once parties developed, such a figure was generally in a different party from the President.

Yeah I know (and it was a silly idea of theirs). What if one were to toss the Vice-President entirely in favour of my hypothetical Speaker of Congress?

Or make the guy who got the second most EVs automatically a figure in Congress.

I don't know, just throwing stuff out there :).
 
Yeah I know (and it was a silly idea of theirs). What if one were to toss the Vice-President entirely in favour of my hypothetical Speaker of Congress?

Or make the guy who got the second most EVs automatically a figure in Congress.

I don't know, just throwing stuff out there :).

The VP is a figure in Congress. He (or she) breaks tie votes in the Senate.

Besides, the sort of functionality you are seeking, I think, manifests itself in today's Speaker, Majority Leader, or Minority Leader, depending on who is in control of the Congress, and whether that party or the other one occupies the White House.
 
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