[loveliberty2]

These violations of our Constitution's division of powers, separation of the powers of the federal government, its checks and balances on the strictly-limited powers it does grant to the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary powers can, and must, be reined in by "We, the People" if the light of liberty is to be a beacon for oppressed peoples of the world.

The Constitution provides within itself the only means by which its protections and limits on coercive government power can be changed. Thomas Jefferson described "the People's" power as "chains", on elected officials, as in his admonition, ". . . bind them down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

This President chafes and complains that the Constitution doesn't allow him to do what he wants to do, but then he goes ahead with actions which tests the limits of Executive power by enacting policies, properly defined, that amount to "legislating" instead of "executing" that which the Legislative Branch legislates.

By doing so, he and his fellow "progressives" rely on what they believe to be the ignorance of "the People," described by Justice Story ("Commentaries on the Constitution . . . .") as being "the only KEEPERS" of that Constitution.

The time has come for citizens to study the principles underlying their Constitution--principles designed to leave an orderly means of control of the men and women they elect to serve them.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think James Madison and most of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, with the possible exception of Alexander Hamilton, would be horrified at the amount of unchecked power modern Presidents have managed to accumulate. We are dependent on their own patriotism and their own sense of what they can get away with--which counts for very little if the President is a Democrat.

George III was a mere figurehead compared to the modern-day Presidents. And he didn't make the citizens pay for his trips to fundraisers.