Posted on 12/16/2023 4:29:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
Since the New Deal, leftists have consistently expanded government power, especially in the executive branch. Trump threatened all of that and still does.
The Constitution created a chief executive who was supposed to have very few powers. His remit was foreign policy. Individual states weren’t allowed to deal directly with foreign powers, so that was left to the President. No police power exists in the Constitution, so disputes between the states would be dealt with by the Courts. The powers of the Congress were originally limited to a series of specific acts beginning with “To borrow money…” in Article I, Section 8. This didn’t leave a lot of room for a pen and a phone.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court decided to ignore that original meaning in 1936, when it ruled in United States v. Butler that “general welfare” was a separate power. The net effect of that decision was that Congress was no longer limited in its spending. Literally everything was on the table, and it hasn’t yet been possible to put that genie back in the bottle. The Court whisked away James Madison’s original argument that the phrase “provide for the general welfare” simply explained how the list of enumerated powers should be understood.
FDR enjoyed that freedom in implementing his New Deal programs, including Social Security (which is neither). But perhaps the Greatest Leap Forward came with Barack Obama.
Obama asserted that because Congress wouldn’t do the things he wanted on immigration, he’d do his own thing. Montblanc to the rescue! DACA got dropped on America. Regrettably, since he was granting a benefit to illegal aliens, he wasn’t directly injuring any Americans.
This created a real problem. How do you get in front of a Federal Judge? Article 3 says that the judicial power extends to “controversies…
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Leftist judges are also a big problem.
Trump said he was going to rescind Biden’s Day One executive orders on Day One of his next Presidency.
Indeed.
The left called January 6, 2021 insurrection and it wasn’t it was a resurrection.
Imperialism?
It’s a good idea to read “Decline of the West” (Oswald Spengler)
Following the stages of culture/civilization*, he describes their progress generally as bud/bloom/decay. One stage common to declining civilizations is what he called ‘Caesar ism’.
It’s really frightening to read his description and to recognize where we are in his analysis. He wrote it between WWI and WWII and he’s often and wrongly criticized as ‘fascist’ by people who are not careful readers.
It’s well worth a read... a real education in itself.
* I separated culture and civilization because the author believed they were two different things. He said that civilization is the degraded form of culture....so he got my attention right away
The 17th Amendment made the New Deal, Great Society and all subsequent outrages . . . a certainty.
Article V.
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