Posted on 10/16/2015 9:20:35 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
excellent bttt
Here is the letter I post every Jul4 and send to papers.
This July 4 we recognize the Declaration of Independence as the essence of American exceptionalism. In the Constitutional Convention men followed this philosophy to display an ability to compromise sourced in gracious self-abnegation rather than the cynical haggling expected of the human condition. The outcome was an audacious, perilous experiment placing primary faith in the natural rights of fallen individuals judiciously constrained by a limited government recognizing the paradox of its own fragility.
The document itself is now faded and worn and some of the signatures have completely disappeared. Such physical degradation reflected the spiritual degradation we have undergone because of administrative law.
Administrative law is the soft underbelly of our Constitution. Pursuit of happiness means spiritual prosperity with the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. However, governments always stand ready to offer enchanting material security within their administrative rules. The legislation called Obamacare provides the latest example of incrementally forfeiting speech and religious freedoms, personal life without access to courts and trial, and rights protected but Constitutionally undefined for a promise of material security.
The History and Danger of Administrative Law
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/history-danger-administrative-law/
"In every bureaucratic system, the shifting of responsibilities is a matter of daily routine, and if one wishes to define bureaucracy in terms of political science, that is as a form of government (the rule of office as contrasted to the rule of men of one man or of the few, or of the many) bureaucracy unhappily is the rule of nobody and for this reason is perhaps the least human and most cruel form of rulership".- Hannh Arendt (Re: Eichmann and his role in the holocaust) -
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