Here is one solution.
All laws and regulations not put in the consitution have an expiration date no greater than 24 years.
So any bill in congress will expire in 24 years or less depending on how long they were approved for and have to be voted on again.
This ensures that the crappy regulations will have to die at some point.
Maybe even settign the expiration to less than 24 years, maybe 12 years (two terms of a senator) and term limit the people in power as well...
All laws and regulations not put in the consitution have an expiration date no greater than 24 years.
Contrary to the Judge’s rant, we are not living today in:
* a representative republic, because most of the protections of the constitution have been stripped away (e.g., by re-interpretation of the ‘interstate commerce’ clause)
* a representative democracy, because most of the restrictions on our freedoms come from regulations, not laws passed by Congress.
Congress only passes about 85 laws per year, yet the bureacracy pumps out over 8500 pages of regulations per year ... which take effect unless both House and Senate agree to set them aside. Thus the “checks and balances” are reversed -— regulations take effect unless both House and Senate agree to change them (as opposed to the Constitutional requirement that the same exact wording of a law must be passed by both House and Senate and signed by the President).
The biggest swindle of the Progressives in the early 1900s was to convice the people that the mere mortals in Congress were not smart enough to pass the necessary laws dealing with “complicated” situations, and that these situations required smarter people to write regulations, find offenders, and haul them in front of administrative judges (other people smarter than ordinary judges); and thus they established the administrative state.
Obama is now demonstrating to the world how this enables the executive branch to act without constraint for the 5 years it takes for a case to finally arrive at the Supreme Court.
One way to re-establish the “checks and balances” is to restore the legislative function exclusively to Congress. No regulation should have the effect of law unless passed by both House and Senate first