A Nation of Paper, Not of Men

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/06/18/a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men/?singlepage=true ^ | June 18, 2012 | Andrew C. McCarthy

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In continuing the dramatic shift from American constitutional democracy to rule by executive fiat that has marked his tenure, President Barack Obama now claims that the illegal aliens, to whom he purports to grant what effectively is amnesty, are “Americans … in every single way but one — on paper.” That is false. They are not Americans under the only thing that matters, the thing the Obama administration has chanted like a mantra — while riding roughshod over – since its very first day in power: the rule of law.

The Constitution and congressional statutes are written on parchment. That is the only relevance of “paper” in this equation — as the “hard copy” of our social contract and of the laws enacted pursuant to it. Under the Constitution, Congress, not the president, is endowed with such a power: “To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Congress exercises this power by passing laws. Under the Constitution, which Obama took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend, and under the laws it is his duty to execute faithfully, illegal aliens — no matter how sympathetic their plight, no matter how blameless they may be for the illegality of their status — are not citizens of the United States. They are not Americans. Period. It is not “paper” that separates them from our body politic, it is the law, of which Obama is supposed to be servant, not master — as I argued in this September 2011 essay for The New Criterion: “The Ruler of Law — On “Justice” in the Age of Obama.”

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Newt Gingrich posted the link to this on Twitter today.

[Red Badger]

Treason doth never prosper. Why? For if it prosper none dare call it treason...............

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"We are entitled to conclude Obama defrauded the American people in taking his oath of office. He prefaced the oath by unabashedly declaring his intention to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” He followed the oath with a series of usurpations designed to do just that. This highlights another mendacious aspect of Obama’s pandering to the hard Left on illegal immigration and, symmetrically, on election fraud (the policing against which he similarly obstructs)."

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"It ought not matter whether we agree or disagree with Obama’s policy objectives on immigration — or the glut of areas from the use of force to labor relations to state sovereignty to socialized medicine to debt to diet, etc., on which he presumes to dictate rather than honor the law. Our social compact as a body politic demands that policy objectives be pursued within a system of divided powers in which the prerogatives of the president and of the federal government are strictly limited. Obama rejects this bedrock principle. Therefore, we must reject him.

If he is not removed from office — and if, while he retains office, politically accountable actors at the federal and state level continue their feckless failure to use their constitutional muscle to block him and rein him in — this will no longer be America. Not even on paper."

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING article by Andrew C. McCarthy! Thanks for posting.

DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic, including the “New Party” POSOTUS and any of the 535 who enable this totalitarian wannabe.

C’mon November

live - free - republic

[kreitzer]

sorry Andy McCarthy, you had your chance to choose the right side of history and call the usurper out for the fraud he is; but you chose to keep the steady paycheck from Conservative Inc.

[fone]

Under the Constitution, which Obama took an oath to preserve

He stuttered while taking the oath. Play it back....

Wiggle room.