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Turley on Expansion of Presidential Powers: "We Have Become a Nation of Enablers" (MUST SEE video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | February 12, 2014) | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 02/12/2014 7:02:11 PM PST by i88schwartz

KELLY: Let me ask you about this because in that soundbite we played before we went to commercial, you said the framers would be horrified because everything they did was to create balance between the branches of government and we've lost that.

TURLEY: Well, I'm afraid it's quite serious because the framers created a system that was designed to avoid one principle thing, the concentration of power in any one branch. Because that balancing between these branches in this fixed orbit is what not only gives stability to our system but it protects us against authoritarian power, it protects civil liberties from abuse.

And what we've been seeing is the shift of gravity within that system in a very dangerous way that makes it unstable, and I think that's what the president is doing. I think that we've become a nation of enablers. We are turning a blind eye to a fundamental change in our system. I think many people will come to loathe that they remained silent during this period.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; expansionofpowers; jonathanturley; obamadictator; obamalawless; turley

1 posted on 02/12/2014 7:02:11 PM PST by i88schwartz
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To: i88schwartz

I actually believe it to be much less of a system problem than a no-God problem.

We have adequate views into the Revolutionary times to back this assertion up robustly. History, and various founding-father quotations. No, we wouldn’t need a slavish copy of the way Christian faith was implemented back then in order to be blessed like that again. In fact we could do it better if the lessons of what was done WRONG back then were taken to heart as corrections: No slavery whether it by by chains or bribes. More grace in penal systems (grace is not the same as lenity — this is more like rehab with responsibility). Charity emphasized so much that it becomes tax creditable, not just tax deductible. And probably a lot more that I haven’t thought of.

Get the God obedience right and the government structure is much less important.


2 posted on 02/12/2014 7:17:45 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: i88schwartz

on you tube
5:21 Minutes
Jonathan Turley with Megyn Kelly
Constitutional Atty Says Expansion Of Pres Power Threatens Liberty - Jonathon Turley -The Kelly File

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1glF6N5950


3 posted on 02/12/2014 7:25:30 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: i88schwartz
Mr. Turley is incorrect. This is not some sudden shift in power in the government. This a planned destruction of our Republic by progressives. It is no surprise to anyone who pays attention. And the evil and gullible academics share plenty of blame. Hope you enjoy what folks like you Turley have unleashed upon us.
4 posted on 02/12/2014 7:33:32 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Bulls-eye, bro. Bulls-eye.

Every thing else is a result of your point, and only a symptom of the disease......and does no good to deal with the symptoms....only relieves the pain - temporarily.......


5 posted on 02/12/2014 7:39:06 PM PST by Arlis
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To: i88schwartz

Turley voted for obama. He said he believed in obama. Why can’t they look at obama and see who and what he is? We wouldn’t be in the mess we are now in, if they would have recognized who he was and what he was going to do. How can anyone trust a snake in the grass now that they see what is going on. How can anyone defend the person who is behind the destruction and the take over. Does it have to get personal before they care? Just how personal?

The lack of intelligence among the educated, still confounds me.


6 posted on 02/12/2014 9:26:20 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: i88schwartz
designed to avoid one principle thing, the concentration of power in any one branch

It may seem a mere technicality, but I think not: there's another principal thing: avoiding the dominance of the federal over the states. I think that may be even more paramount than the trilateral sharing of power at the federal level.

7 posted on 02/12/2014 9:33:37 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: i88schwartz

BTTT!


8 posted on 02/19/2014 5:17:14 PM PST by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: Migraine
True, and the moment the 17th Amendment was ratified, we changed from a federal to a democratic republic. Power was certain to consolidate in DC. THE first division of power as designed by the framers was vertical, between the states and the government they created. Our history shows that absent vertical division, horizontal separation of powers will eventually disappear.

The wonder is that it took almost a hundred years for an Obama to appear.

9 posted on 02/23/2014 10:12:23 AM PST by Jacquerie ( Obama has established executive branch precedents that no election can reverse. Article V.)
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To: Jacquerie
The wonder is that it took almost a hundred years for an Obama to appear.

Those hundred years were punctuated when Orville Faubus and George Wallace did their defiance on integration's deliberate speed.

From that time forward, virtually all Demcrat legislation has been rationalized as spinoffs from the 14th Amendment. The rest of the Constitution has been ignored. And if you oppose their BS on the basis of States' Rights, they always bring up George Wallace, and paint you as a bigot.

Time for us to fight back hard against all that.

10 posted on 02/23/2014 1:41:51 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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To: Migraine; Jacquerie

You’re right ... the problem is not that power is not properly distributed in the Federal government; the problem is that there’s too much power in the Federal government, and that began with the 17th Amendment.


11 posted on 02/24/2014 5:47:01 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Yes, that amendment tacitly and effectively allowed the Senate (the court of impeachment) to be utterly dominated by the cities, which will always be liberal (gravitational appeal to the poor and minorities and their community organizers, the universities are there, also full of government employees).
So, yeah, whether it could have been foreseen or not, the 17th was a die cast in favor of liberal, statist, unconstitutional governance.


12 posted on 02/24/2014 6:34:55 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU..)
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