“Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
Posted on 12/11/2014 11:04:36 AM PST by upbeat5
The constitutional issues involving President Barack Obama's executive orders on amnesty far transcend the issue of illegal immigration. The president’s action strikes at the very heart of our separation of powers. The Constitution reserves to Congress alone the power to enact and alter law, and charges the president with the responsibility to faithfully execute those laws.
If the president can seize legislative power in this manner and then boast to an audience that he himself has changed the law, then the separation of powers becomes meaningless, and our constitutional Republic will have crossed a very bright line that separates a nation of laws from the unhappy societies where rulers boast the “law is in their mouths.”
If this precedent stands, every succeeding president, Republican and Democrat, will cite it as authority to make or alter law by decree. That cannot be allowed to happen.........
The Roman Republic died when Julius Caesar seized the legislative authority of the Roman Senate. Repeated acts of usurpation went unchallenged until the constitutional structure of the Republic simply disintegrated.
Let that not be the epitaph of the American Republic. Of this crisis, let history record that men and women of good will on both sides of the aisle joined together to defend the Constitution they swore to uphold, and that this generation passed that Constitution--and all the freedoms it has preserved--intact and inviolate--to the many generations who followed.
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I pray you are right. Worried you are not.
Impeach his skinny ass.................
Did you forget this <</sarcasm>>
“Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
And his character wanted to overthrow the President in “Seven Days in May.”
Yes he did. Had to review that one a little. Seems like I confused the one with Sterling Hayden and the Fluoride conspiracy.
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