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How The New Deal Corrupted Government And Eroded Constitutional Checks And Balances
The Federalist ^ | May 8, 2018 | Bre Payton

Posted on 05/08/2018 7:23:13 AM PDT by fwdude

The New Deal led to the rise of the administrative state, to which Congress frequently delegates its regulatory power. Its programs were so vast, they required a massive team of people to carry out. Instead of being divided up into three entities — legislative, judicial, and executive, as prescribed by the Constitution — the government is now functionally divided into the political and administrative states.

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Under this re-imagined structure, decisions are no longer made by the people. They are made by special interests: the bureaucrats regulating the issue, interest groups, and corporations. The massive bureaucratic state makes it so the people no longer decide how something is regulated, and groups that have traditionally sided with the common man, like labor unions, favor this because many of them are on the inside and get a seat at the decision table. As a result, regulations are made not for the benefit of the American people, but to benefit the corporations who depend upon certain regulations and contracts from the government.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: constitution; newdeal; swamp
Good article based on a Hillsdale lecture on the corruption of our Constitutional government structure.
1 posted on 05/08/2018 7:23:13 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

The American people like “checks and balances” so long as the check is headed off balance to them.


2 posted on 05/08/2018 7:24:45 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: fwdude

How the American Catholic Church succumbed to the Administrative Entitlement State, portending Saul Alinsky’s conversion of the American Catholic Hierarchy to ends-justify-means immorality. https://ricochet.com/archives/american-catholicisms-pact-with-the-devil/


3 posted on 05/08/2018 7:40:39 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Theodore R.

Ever since the New Deal America has be getting a Raw Deal.


4 posted on 05/08/2018 7:47:03 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: fwdude

bttt


5 posted on 05/08/2018 7:57:46 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: fwdude

Thanks to the Zapruder film, our faith in big government will soon be ending across the board. Modern technology has caught up to the doctoring they did to the film and the deception put before us about the JFK assassination and once a thread starts to unravel, soon the clothing is entirely gone which has covered the lies we’ve been given by our good ole government. What else have they lied about? RFK? MLK? The moon landings? 9-11? You name it and they are in deep trouble as far as the trust factor is concerned and there will soon be a groundswell of support for REDUCING their role in our lives and limiting the power they now exert. The founding fathers had ZERO trust in government to behave itself and finally, once again, we the people will feel the same way. It’s coming.


6 posted on 05/08/2018 8:08:06 AM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: liberalism is suicide

What was so tragic is that the New Deal was wildly popular among so many, giving FDR the presidency for it in 4 elections. How did we get so blind so early?


7 posted on 05/08/2018 8:12:47 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Uncle Sham

Please tell me then: What was the motivation to kill Pres. Kennedy?


8 posted on 05/08/2018 8:13:29 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude
Please tell me then: What was the motivation to kill Pres. Kennedy?

He had the Treasury printing U.S. notes, not Federal Reserve notes that are laundered through the Federal Reserve system. That's the biggest reason I can think of. It always comes down to money because money = power.

9 posted on 05/08/2018 10:10:44 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

bkmk


10 posted on 05/08/2018 10:17:38 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: fwdude

This is how the unaccountable “swamp” of administrative agencies got started.


11 posted on 05/08/2018 10:46:38 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: fwdude

There were lots of enemies within his government who wished him dead. The military industrial complex were not about to see massive profiteering from a war in Vietnam go away, LBJ did not want to go to prison, J. Edgar Hoover was not about to let himself be canned. The C.I.A. wasn’t going to allow itself to be dismantled. You name it and he represented a threat to it’s continuance. They were not going to let it happen to them. Carrying out the hit, then covering it up has been a full time job for them ever since. The clock has struck midnight on their little plan and soon, it will all unravel. Really bad for THEM and good for us.


12 posted on 05/08/2018 1:44:52 PM PDT by Uncle Sham
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To: zeugma; fwdude

JFK tried unsuccessfully several times to assassinate Castro. Castro promised Oswald a lot of money to kill JFK.

Johnson had Ruby clean up the mess, Democrat-style, so he could have his war with Vietnam and not be distracted with a war in Cuba.


13 posted on 05/08/2018 3:20:27 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Yeah. That’s a popular theory. I’m putting my money on the Fed. (no pun intended of course)


14 posted on 05/08/2018 7:36:12 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: zeugma

Lol!


15 posted on 05/09/2018 10:22:59 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: fwdude

bookmake


16 posted on 07/21/2018 7:37:50 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: fwdude

Wickard v Filburn.

L


17 posted on 07/21/2018 7:40:16 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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