I’ll admit, I’ve learned some things during this election cycle. One thing that has come to my attention that I never really realized is this transfer of power from the legislative branch of our government to the executive branch of our government. We know something is wrong in our country. We see its effects. We see our nation crumbling. But why can’t we stop these things from happening? I mean what is the plan to get this country back on track. What track? The constitution track. People just don’t understand HOW we’ve strayed from our constitution. Therefore, we don’t understand HOW to get us back on a constitutional track. What is lacking must somehow be provided. This is just one aspect of all this mess. There must be a transfer of power BACK to the legislative branch of government.
Everybody is mad and everybody sees that something is wrong. Something is missing. Something is not working. Something is broke. People want to know how to fix it. But they don’t know where the problem is. That is why they vote for Trump. They just don’t know. They think that this one person is going to fix the problem. But let me ask you this: How is he going to transfer the power of the executive branch BACK to the legislative branch? You see, it’s very common for people to see President Obama as a usurper of power when he hands down his bathroom edicts. But I contend that the problem is not that he’s usurped power, but rather that power has been unconstitutionally conferred to him. This is very similar to the all-powerful Supreme Court. We complain that they legislate from the bench. But truly, the problem is not necessarily the justices, but rather the power they wield has been unconstitutionally conferred to them. And thus the fallacy that the right person in that position will fix the problem. A conservative justice will not fix the broken judicial system we have. And neither will a single president be able to transfer his branch’s power BACK to the legislative branch of our government where it belongs (or to the states), especially if he hasn’t once mentioned on the campaign trail that this needs to be done.
There was a great interview with Senator Mike Lee by Mark Levin explaining this phenomena. Mike Lee explained how the agencies and departments of the executive branch have given legislators relief of the responsibility of passing law. They literally don’t have to legislate anymore because that power has been systematically relinquished to the executive branch. They have given up their accountability. They let the executive branch legislate away and wash their hands of any responsibility. The beautiful balance of powers between the three branches that our founding fathers instituted is way out of balance. Just the other day I was reading how the executive branch hands down 3500 to 4000 new regulations a year, whereas our legislative branch that is supposed to be making the law only pass 100-200 laws a year. Our government is out of balance and there’s no way to check the power of the executive branch. The only recourse we have are the courts. The courts are packed by the executive branch with leftist judges that love big government. So our system of checks and balances has run amok!
And that is one of our biggest problems. The executive branch is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. The EPA, the Department of Education, OSHA, and on and on. They are the ones writing the law. We the people have no representation. We the people have no recourse. The executive branch is effectually swallowing up the legislative branch. I wanted to share something with you from Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”. He’s writing to the inhabitants of America on February 14th, in the year 1776..
“The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king. It is somewhat difficult to find a proper name for the government of England.”
So the converse of this is what is happening in our government. The king, or the President and his executive branch, is taking up more and more business: health, housing, education, and now bathrooms! All that is none of their business. And the more business the executive branch gets into, the further we regress from a republic. So it is becoming more and more difficult to find a proper name for the government of the United States of America. Were we not given a republic? What do we call our government now?
“…in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because the corrupt influence of the crown, by having all the places in its disposal, hath so effectually swallowed up the power, and eaten out the virtue of the house of commons (the republican part in the constitution) that the government of England is nearly as monarchical as that of France and Spain.”
Clearly, the power of our house of commons, our legislative branch, is getting swallowed up and any virtue that it once had is now eaten out. I find it interesting that we’ve come full circle. The very corruption that we declared our independence from is now at hand.
“For it is the republican and not the monarchical part of the constitution of England which Englishmen glory in, viz. the liberty of choosing an house of commons from out of their own body – and it is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues. Why is the constitution of England sickly, but because monarchy hath poisoned the republic, the crown hath engrossed the commons?”
This is the very reason, the power of England had to be shook off. This is how we don’t have representation. It’s not that we don’t have representatives. No, we’ve got plenty of those. It’s that they have no real power. It’s that there truly is no accountability. They’re not the ones making the law. They have given away their power to make law. They have refused to take back that which is rightfully theirs. Simply put, our representative refuse to do their job. There is only one solution to this. That which is lacking must be provided. The power must be wrested from those who unconstitutionally have it, and it must be given back not only to those who constitutionally should have it, but to those who can be trusted to keep it. God help us.
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