Hillsdale Event: "Is Congress Broken? Constitutional Deliberation and the Administrative State"

Hillsdale College ^ | 5/6/10 | Hillsdale College

[hillsdale1]

Great lecture tomorrow at Hillsdale College's First Principles on First Fridays event in Washington, D.C. with University of Nevada-Reno's Prof. John Marini.

With public approval ratings of Congress at an all-time low, many people wonder if the institution is broken. Focus on the Senate filibuster or other procedural matters, however, obscures the legislative branch's systemic problems, which are tied less to procedure or party than to profligate disregard for constitutional restraint that is the heart of the administrative state. With attention to the real reasons why Congress is broken, then, this lecture will also outline what first steps can be made to restore constitutional deliberation.

"First Principles" is a monthly lecture series that addresses significant and timely political, historical, and economic topics from a constitutional perspective. This event is free and open to the public.

[mulligan]

Yes, Congress(government) is broken and is breaking the nation. This was once a great nation and now we are the home of illegal invaders and others who care nothing about America, other than to see its’ destruction. We are now a nation of sick, politically correct cowards.

[Man50D]

There's always the Declaration of Independence:

"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."