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Shutdowns have terribly little to do with the Constitution or Founding Fratboys. They're mostly the result of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (and then repealing the "Gephardt rule" in 1995).
Having a debt ceiling is idiotic. Congress passes a budget to decide what to spend, so why would they need to pass another bill to fund the spending they already passed? Literally, the answer to that is "So they can shut down the government."
This isn't an issue of "the power of the purse" or checks and balances. It's political grandstanding. Republicans are determined to break the country.
What ever restrictions that Congress puts on its budgets and developing budgets are well within its power of the purse under Article 1 Section 8, which expressly states:
If Congress chooses to express that limitation within a statute, that is well within its rights. So, whether or not it is actually about political grandstanding is moot under the constitution because it is expressly within Congress's power of the purse.
My point is that nothing in the Constitution requires government shutdowns. Your comment about "the power of the purse" was fairly off base/misleading because it's all political grandstanding.
This country existed for ~225 years with no government shutdowns. Yes, it has always been within Congress's rights to be dumbasses, I didn't suggest otherwise. I just want to be clear that nobody is forcing them.
Shutdowns are not caused by the Constitution or any quirk of American procedure. Newt Gingrich passed a law so he could hold the government hostage, and Republicans have gotten worse ever since.