The NC Principles also over-concentrate power in the president. In new democracies, the greatest danger comes from the executive branch, especially presidents, because they often over-extend their own power. Sometimes they even take over the government altogether and reign as dictator. The solution is to limit the power of the president in three ways: first, choose the president in such a way that he will feel accountable to many different groups; second, give the other branches power to balance the president; third, make sure that the president?s own powers would not make it easy for him to seize control. Unfortunately, the NC Principles do none of these things. The principles would create a very powerful president—clearly the dominant power in the country. No democracy has succeeded with a president this powerful.