More Nationalized Government
There’s a potentially dangerous trend out there, one that can threaten the concept of our republic.
And actually, let’s just start there…with the fact that we have a republic. It’s defined as a form of government in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives. The country itself is a public matter, not the private property of rulers.
While we’re at it, note that it is not a democracy…it’s a representative democracy. We don’t hold national votes on anything, including president. All that is on purpose, and it’s served us pretty well since the Constitution was adopted in 1789.
The practice over the last three presidents in particular to rule by executive order…or by executive order removing the executive order put in place by the last guy…is not what the founders had in mind—or else, they’d have set it up that way.
Three co-equal branches of government, that’s the system. It’s not designed so that the executive branch can override a ruling from the judicial branch, just because the president doesn’t like it. And while legally possible, I doubt the framers intended for the legislative and executive branches to change the size of something like the Supreme Court, again because they didn’t like the rulings.
Yet we’ve see that erosion of co-equal power, with the slack being picked up by the executive branch. Sen. Charles Grassley blames the very Congress he’s been part of for allowing agencies to pursue fiefdoms unchecked. Congress establishes them, but with such loose provisions that it’s literally up to the agencies themselves to set key rules…and while you don’t want Congress micro-managing agencies, the trend has slid too far toward abdicating authority. And since nature abhors a vacuum, the agency snaps up more power.
It’s really obvious at the presidential level, though…and regardless of which side of the political spectrum you’re on, it should concern everyone—because while it may be your guy signing the orders today, it will be their guy the next time.
