In the American system, government employees are legally bound to uphold the laws enacted by legislatures chosen to represent the public will. It is not up to the president to make law by executive decree, and not up to public servants to decide whether the laws we have are right or wrong. That’s the exclusive province of the courts to determine… yet even there we have to endure the disturbing tendency of judges to “legislate from the bench.” These are violations of the basic principle of the separation of powers doctrine built into the U.S. Constitution by our very wise forefathers.
This is the alarming trend that seems to be rearing its ugly head — a blatant disregard for the Constitution and the separation of powers principle by congressweasels who have chosen to ignore the will of the people and continue to pass themselves off as “authorities,” “officials,” and worse, “leaders.” They are meant to be exactly the opposite of all those things. Even the U.S. Justice Department — the very people charged with prosecuting law violators — have often taken power into their own hands illegally by choosing which laws they want to enforce and which they do not.
The anti-federalist Brutus, thought by most scholars to be New York Judge and delegate to the Constitutional Convention Robert Yates, warned in his essay No. 6 about Congress having too much power under Article 1, Section 8 (…power to lay and collect taxes, imposts, duties, and excises, according to the discretion of the legislature…) and eventually taking all authority from the states, and lastly, the individual….”This power, exercised without limitation, will introduce itself into every comer of the city, and country — it will wait upon the ladies at their toilett, and will not leave them in any of their domestic …
… of every person in the United States. To all these different classes of people, and in all these circumstances, in which it will attend them, the language in which it will address them, will be GIVE! GIVE!”
Since at least the 1970s, Washington congressweasels have been promoting the shibboleth that if one group or the other has a perceived disadvantage in outcomes, then government must step in to ensure that everyone attains equal results. And so it has stepped into our personal lives ever more with each passing day until the average American barely notices or cares.
I must mention here that globalists and their promotion of globalism can never be anything but contradictory. Their politics are marked by contradiction, hypocrisy and deception. “Human rights” is a term that originated with communism and was adopted by the United Nations and other proponents of world governance.
Someone, after all, must define and monitor exactly what constitutes “human rights.” God-given, individual, natural rights must be strangled so that human rights (a collectivist term) can be instituted by all-powerful, collectivist governments.
Most of you are already informed enough to know that the American nation was founded as a republic, not a democracy. A republic is a limited, representative, participatory government. A republic is the almost natural result of public order built upon the individual, the family, the Church, and business and many, many private associations and relations.
Democracy is not necessarily a representative government, but it is an illusory participatory government. This is what your friendly elected class wants you to believe our republic is. People tend to think that democracy is evolved or modern republicanism. Democracy is truly a veil for a wicked government that places all matters, including personal and private ones, into the public view, for public legislation.
In a democracy, the vote becomes the single, all-important symbol of citizen participation in life. Thus, politics become personal, and all conversations revolve around something that should not be part of personal life at all.
The brilliant Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, described in his Democracy in America, the danger facing all Americans should they become deceived into believing that their mere, sole vote constituted everything about a good citizen. He warned that when this development came about, we should become slaves to the real, elitist and plutocratic powers operating behind the veil of democracy. The problem was obvious more than 150 years ago, when Tocqueville wrote his book.
Individualist, Libertarian and conservative voters should concentrate on finding candidates for state and local elections who will uphold the Constitution they swear to uphold and who are willing to take a bold stand for states’ rights and against federal tyranny. It’s at the state level that nullification of unconstitutional federal laws is to take place, as outlined by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1789.
Gradualism — the glacial move away from federalism led by national politicians who used and continue to use the Federal Treasury to buy votes and reward crony corporations and intrude into state issues, and used by an activist federal judiciary — has turned republicanism on its head and into a fascist system of tyranny and oppression. To peacefully restore constitutional governance will be a gradual and difficult process, and its probability of success remains in doubt.
But it starts with you. No national politicians — who have invaded Congress and instituted a globalist takeover of America and doused our freedoms and liberties — will do this for you.
Written by Bob Livingston
