Posted on 06/27/2014 2:21:28 AM PDT by markomalley
One of the big virtues of the American system is that it allows itself to be changed. But changing our system, i.e. amending the Constitution, requires a supermajority of three-quarters of the states. That’s a bigger supermajority than what’s needed to override a veto, and it’s a bigger supermajority than what’s needed to convict and remove an impeached president. So while change of the system is possible, it’s very difficult; it takes a “super-consensus,” and that’s a good thing.
However, there are those who will have no truck with that nonsense. For them, all that’s needed for change is a telephone and a pen.
For those Americans who are fond of an imperial presidency, this must be the best of times, a veritable Golden Age; for constitutionalists, not so much. It’s been said that Barack Hussein Obama is the president Richard Milhous Nixon wanted to be. But the initial crimes of Watergate only affected the Democrat party, while Obama’s lawlessness strikes at our very system. It’s time to ratchet back the power of the office of president.
One of the places where presidential power could be curbed is the pardon. America has an entire branch of government devoted to ascertaining guilt and innocence, and the determinations of such are the result of the collective wisdom of judges and juries. To have those decisions and the entire judicial process nullified by any one person is too much, especially if that person is not above using power for purely political purposes, or whose judgment has been shown by recent events to be sorely under par. Even before Obama, the power of the pardon was abused, as in the case of the FALN terrorists pardoned by Clinton.
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That’s the reason restoring the constitutional republic will not be done at the ballot box.
I live in Florida, which has an initiative in progress for this fall to allow medical mj. I believe the last poll shows 75% support.
If it were up to me, mj would be legal, or at least a very minor crime. And it should all be handled at the state level.
The ballot box, is for the most part, useless.
I’m really, really hating the conclusions this is leading to.
Yep. But the wind is blowing that way.
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