The Question of Lawmaking

Article V Blog ^ | February 26th 2017 | Rodney Dodsworth

[Jacquerie]

I can hear the eyes glazing over. From Article I § 1 “We the People,” in a straightforward sentence, loaned limited lawmaking powers to a Congress of the United States. What could be clearer?

Despite the clarity, most lawmaking these past hundred years drifted from congress to executive branch agencies. Specialists in various disciplines from the environment, workplace and labor relations, education, energy, and the law itself (DOJ), busy themselves writing progressive regulations on behalf of the President. But, for many, the pace of transformation was still too slow. To speed societal progress, a recent democrat congress infamously exempted a couple of new agencies from congressional oversight: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Obamacare Death Panels. With several winks and nods over decades, the scotus found these and the more familiar administrative state to be thoroughly Constitutional. They are not; they evidence a dangerous corruption of lawmaking that if left unreformed does not bode well for the continuance of our once republic.

I trace much of the turmoil in Western Civilization to the struggle over, “Who or what body makes the law?” Lawmaking is the central feature of government. In republics, lawmaking is the responsibility of representatives of the component members of society. Notwithstanding our beloved Constitution, I shake my head in disbelief when I occasionally read at conservative websites that modern America is a republic; it is hardly more a republic than Imperial Rome circa 300 AD was a republic just because emperors kept up the charade of republican institutions. Then, as now, what passes for republican government better resembles scenes of power-mad factions going at each other’s throats, rather than constituent members joined in common purpose to advance the best interests of the nation.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[i_robot73]

>...in a straightforward sentence...

WHOLE lotta ‘straight forward’ English in the Constitution. In setting up Federalism, is a specific list of ‘CAN DO’ for govt, unless spelled out differently.

Unfort. all it takes is a Leftist, or shill, to turn the plain meanings on their head; Federalism on its head.

[Nateman]

Mulbury vs Madison, which in 1803 gave the Supreme Court the final say over the Constitution was a flaw that Jefferson himself recognized. The dismantling of the Constitution was something the founder’s foresaw which is why Article V was created.