CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION

CHECKS AND BALANCES IN THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION

The American Constitution was created to establish a new form of government that would protect the people from large, intrusive government. One of the major themes of the Constitution, and the major theme of the Bill of Rights, is to limit the power of government. The Founding Fathers built a structure that is supported by a three legged foundation. The three legs are the executive leg, the legislative leg, and the judicial leg; these are what is traditionally referred to a the system of checks and balances.

The system of checks and balances is further counterbalanced by the tension, or supposed tension, between the state’s power and the Federal government’s power; but the biggest check and balance of them all was “We the People.” An informed electorate was integrated into every letter and every word of the constitution. The ultimate check and balance was to be an educated and informed electorate.

Now there is no doubt that the state have abdicated their role in constraining the excesses of the Federal government; and no doubt the legislative branch has been a heartfelt disappointment; likewise the judiciary has relinquished is role as interpreter of the law and assumed the role of judicial legislature; and executive power has increased un-proportionally as the federal government’s power increased with the passage of the 16th amendment. But by far the biggest failure of American Constitutional Government is the abject failure of the people to educate themselves in the art of self government and to inform themselves concerning the important issues of the day. The catastrophic failure of America is in short: APATHY. 

I routinely talk to people who know literally know nothing about current events; they know know nothing about civics; know nothing about the sorry state of out judiciary; the sorry state our legislature; the sorry state of our economy; the sorry state of our freedoms; or the sorry state of our future. Most citizens don’t even vote or register to vote. They have relinquished their solemn right to vote; and most who do vote have spent little or no time to educate themselves about the issues. They willing are duped by political slogans; they willingly allow themselves to be lied to in the most blatant way because they are clueless to the reality of the situation; they willingly vote for candidates that are ideologically and economically against their interests but they are confused and unable to discern the truth; they willingly profess one set of beliefs yet vote for politicians that hold a completely opposite view; they fail to prioritize their values and vote for candidates that are enemies of their most cherished beliefs; they lackadaisically allow parties to nominate candidates who don’t represent their main stream moral standards.

As a result we are taxed out of our wealth; we are regulated to death by an incompetent and idiotic bureaucracy who fails at everything they attempt; We pay bureaucrats and politicians excessive salaries and benefits that have bankrupted us; we allow private bankers to create money and drive our economy into crisis and failure; we allow our education system to become the laughing stock of the world; we allow our public colleges and universities to become an inane septic system of politically correct non sense; we allow our children to be killed in government supported death clinics; we allow our God to be expelled from our schools, our public discourse, and our children’s minds; and we allow a vast army of unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic elites to rule over us with the iron fist of law without any checks or balances on their power.

As we examine all but one of the candidates running for the presidency from both parties, we see a cadre of big government Washington oligarchs who will continue the policies of failure and bankruptcy that are quickly destroying America. The one constitutional candidate, Ron Paul, who speaks for the constitution, freedom, and economic prosperity is exposed to contumely and derision by the purveyors of the current belt way oligopoly.

Edmund Burke said, “All that’s necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.” We the people have failed our constitution, ourselves, our children, our grandchildren, and mankind by allowing our government to be hijacked by a new form of tyrannical federal monarchy run by big government Kings, Queens, Princes, Dukes, and Duchesses. If we don’t take our government back soon it will take a violent revolution to re-establish our liberty again.

It’s time to stop being apathetic; it’s time to retake our constitution; it’s time to revolutionize America with a return to our first principles; it’s time “We the People…in order to…establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, (to re-ordain) and establish the Constitution for the United States of America.”

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Five Reasons Not To Vote For The Republican Tea Party

It is scary to me that polling shows the Republican Party picking up significant power in the 2010 midterms. I do not understand how people could be so forgetful. Do they not remember the huge mess that George W. Bush left us with in January of 2009?

And it’s not just that the Republican President Bush left us a huge mess, it is that the Republicans have made a calculated political decision to obstruct everything Barack Obama and the Democrats in congress have tried to do in order to clean up that mess.

The GOP has put politics in front of the needs of the US time and time again over the last two years. They have continually obstructed all positive movement while simultaneously spreading many lies about President Obama. And now American voters want to reward them for it? It is insanity!

When will people turn off the noise of the Fox News propaganda network and begin taking a closer look at what the Republicans want for the future of the United States.

I would love to write that it is just a return to the policies of Bush because that would obviously be bad enough. But it’s actually far worse than that. By the standards of the Republican Tea Party of 2010, George W. Bush is a “socialist.”

The GOP agenda for 2011 when they hope to control the Senate and the House include the following:

1. Turn Social Security over to Wall Street. They want the fat cats on Wall Street to have access to your Social Security money.

2. Destroy Medicare. The GOP hated Medicare when it got started in the ’60s and they still hate it today.

3. Extend the Bush tax cuts for the very rich that helped destroy the economy.

4. Get rid of the 17th amendment of the US Constitution. For some bizarre reason they think that citizens shouldn’t have a right to vote for their own Senators, instead party politicians should get to choose them.

5. Begin baseless “investigations” into President Obama’s administration. I am not even joking, they’ve already said they plan on doing this as soon as they get a majority. And this after the Democrats never did any investigations of the real crimes committed by the Bush admin?

It is because of this frightening agenda that I strongly support every Democratic candidate running for congress in 2010. Whether it be Congressman Boucher in the 9th district of VA or any other Democrat running against the Republican Tea Party. It’s not that the Democrats are perfect; they are not. It’s that the GOP of 2010 is clearly very dangerous to the future of America. We are in too precarious of a position to allow these people get any kind of significant power.

2012 GOP Presidential Candidates are likely to attack President Obama for all kinds of ridiculous things, perhaps even taking too much vacation time.