When Lawbreakers Rule A Nation
WHEN LAWBREAKERS RULE A NATION
By David Brownlow
September 9, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david10.htm
Think back to those nostalgic days when the Republicans pretended
they were fighting to "reduce the size of the federal government." I don't
know about you, but they had me hook, line and sinker. I really believed
in them. It was maddening that with all the effort and energy we spent
trying to rein in the growth of the federal government, it only continued
to grow (up over a million federal employees since 1999!). But we hung
in there with the Republicans, failure after failure, because we were sure
the Democrats were the reason nothing was ever accomplished.
Well, it turns out that "big government" was never the real problem. It
also turns out the Republicans had no more intention of "reducing the
size of government" than the Democrats did. All the talk and all the
partisan fights were just a diversion to keep us preoccupied, while the
real damage was being done behind the scenes.
There is no doubt our federal government is a huge problem that has
grown into an enormous behemoth, chewing up the last few remaining
pieces of our freedom. And there can be no argument that our
government has gotten bigger every year, no matter which faction within
the one-party system is in charge. But, big government is not the
problem. Big government is only a symptom of the problem.
The real problems that we are being ruled by a group of elitist politicians
who absolutely refuse to obey the law. We can fight the symptoms all we
want, but until we deal with the core issue - that lawbreakers are ruling
our nation - we have no chance of getting this mess straightened out.
There are so many of our leaders breaking the law on a continual basis
that our government has come to more closely resemble a criminal
enterprise than it does a legitimate government. And whenever
lawbreakers rule a country, chaos and loss of freedom will always result.
Exploding budgets, tyrannical courts, rampant abortion, undeclared
wars, elaborate income transfer schemes, a debased currency, $450
billion a year deficits and a burgeoning federal police state are only the
most obvious indications that we are being swindled out of the very
lifeblood of our country.
How have we gotten ourselves into this situation? It is because we have
allowed criminals and lawbreakers to rule us.
The very first sentence of the Constitution essentially defines the entire
structure of our government. "All legislative powers herein granted shall
be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a
Senate and House of Representatives." The rest of the Constitution lays
out "All the legislative powers" in great detail, which consist of the
limitations and restrictions that were to be placed on the federal
government. It is obvious that our founders were determined to grant
Congress only very limited, narrowly defined powers.
How far we have veered off that path!
The powers vested to Congress are specific, non-ambiguous and were
intended to be a comprehensive enumeration of the powers of
Congress. They were not intended to be a set of guidelines or a list of
suggestions. The limitations of power were designed into our
government because the framers of the Constitution were very aware
(with brilliant foresight) that power consolidated at the federal level
would lead to an eventual loss of our freedom.
Please take a moment to look at a summary of the vested powers of
Congress. Aside from these, Congress has no other powers. All other
powers belong to the states and the people. Any encroachment by the
Congress into state and individual powers (which is nearly everything
they do!) is an illegal usurpation of power.
Congress has the vested power to:
·Provide for the common defense
·Raise, fund and regulate the Army and the Navy
·Borrow money on the credit of the United States
·Declare war
·Approve treaties, Cabinet-level appointments, and appointments to the
Supreme Court (Senate only)
·Regulate the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
·Impeach (House only) and try (Senate only) federal officers
·Introduce Constitutional amendments, call a convention
·Override presidential vetoes
·Regulate commerce with foreign countries and between the states
·Establish rules for citizenship
·Coin money and regulate the value of currency, determine punishment
for counterfeiting
·Define and punish crimes committed at sea
·Establish federal courts
·Create all bills for raising revenue (House only)
·Levy and collect taxes, duties.
·Pay all debts
·Organize and arm the state militias
·Exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the
District of Columbia
·Establish post offices and postal roads
·Create bankruptcy laws
·Regulate patents and copyrights
·Assemble at least once in every year on the first Monday in December
·Establish times for elections
·Discipline it's own members
·Oversee all federal property and possessions (what few there should
be)
·Fill a vacancy in the Presidency in cases of death or inability
·Receive electoral votes for the Presidency
·Keep and publish a journal of its proceedings
·Conduct a census every ten years
As you can see, these vested powers range from the mundane, such as
writing a Congressional journal, on up to the big ones like raising and
regulating an army, declaring wars and approving treaties. From the
level of detail written into these defined powers, we know that the
framers of the Constitution intended to leave very little to interpretation.
These powers were to be the entirety of the powers of Congress.
If any were tempted to step outside of these specific limitations of power,
the Constitution goes even further and mandates that Congress pass
only the laws that are "necessary and proper" for executing the vested
powers.
Conspicuously missing from these clearly defined powers is any
Congressional authority for involvement in education, health care, food
distribution, housing, foreign aid, farming, transportation, spotted owls,
retirement, job creation, energy production, gun regulation, space
exploration, "family planning", day care, the "arts", community
development etc.
In other words, roughly 80% of the programs for which the Congress
provides funding are, in fact, illegal. Check out the 2003 budget and try
to find even the slightest correlation between this budget and the
powers that have been granted to Congress. How they could read the
Constitution and come up with a budget like this is a total mystery.
It is impossible to believe that those who serve us in Congress do not
understand the Constitutional limitations that have been placed on their
power. Since they ignore those limitations with impunity, we can
therefore conclude that the vast majority of those who swore an oath to
defend the Constitution did so knowing full well they intended to break
that oath (and the law) on a daily basis.
People who break the law on such a massive scale usually end up
behind bars. But, since the politicians seem to be immune from the laws
you and I must obey, the only thing we can do is work to kick every one
of the offenders out of office.
Unfortunately, it will be quite a challenge to replace the current group of
lawbreakers with politicians who will be any more likely to obey the law.
(Any who could ever get elected, that is!) Nearly a century of
brainwashing by our government schools has left us with few who
understand and believe in the Constitutional principal of limited
government.
One thing is for sure - if we continue to send the same lawbreakers back
to Washington year after year, the current downward spiral is only going
to get worse. A "lesser of two evils" voting trend has left us with a
Congress that is packed full of dishonest and evil men who are working
tirelessly in their efforts to destroy our country. Since the courts have
long ago abandoned any pretense of defending the Constitution, we are
the only ones can bring some sanity back into our government.
There is no easy answer, but it has become clear that the solution will
not be found within the "two-party" charade we call the Democratic and
the Republican parties, which for all practical purposes have merged
into one. We need to try something different.
Daniel Websterwas thinking a couple of hundred years ahead when he
said:
"I shall exercise every facility I possess in asking to prevent the
Constitution from being nullified, destroyed or impaired: and even
though I should see it fall, I will still, with voice feeble, perhaps, but
earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with fidelity and zeal which
nothing can extinguish … call on the people to come to its rescue."
Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
The hour is late. If ever there was a time when our
Constitution needed to be rescued, the time is now.
By David Brownlow
September 9, 2003
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/Brownlow/david10.htm
Think back to those nostalgic days when the Republicans pretended
they were fighting to "reduce the size of the federal government." I don't
know about you, but they had me hook, line and sinker. I really believed
in them. It was maddening that with all the effort and energy we spent
trying to rein in the growth of the federal government, it only continued
to grow (up over a million federal employees since 1999!). But we hung
in there with the Republicans, failure after failure, because we were sure
the Democrats were the reason nothing was ever accomplished.
Well, it turns out that "big government" was never the real problem. It
also turns out the Republicans had no more intention of "reducing the
size of government" than the Democrats did. All the talk and all the
partisan fights were just a diversion to keep us preoccupied, while the
real damage was being done behind the scenes.
There is no doubt our federal government is a huge problem that has
grown into an enormous behemoth, chewing up the last few remaining
pieces of our freedom. And there can be no argument that our
government has gotten bigger every year, no matter which faction within
the one-party system is in charge. But, big government is not the
problem. Big government is only a symptom of the problem.
The real problems that we are being ruled by a group of elitist politicians
who absolutely refuse to obey the law. We can fight the symptoms all we
want, but until we deal with the core issue - that lawbreakers are ruling
our nation - we have no chance of getting this mess straightened out.
There are so many of our leaders breaking the law on a continual basis
that our government has come to more closely resemble a criminal
enterprise than it does a legitimate government. And whenever
lawbreakers rule a country, chaos and loss of freedom will always result.
Exploding budgets, tyrannical courts, rampant abortion, undeclared
wars, elaborate income transfer schemes, a debased currency, $450
billion a year deficits and a burgeoning federal police state are only the
most obvious indications that we are being swindled out of the very
lifeblood of our country.
How have we gotten ourselves into this situation? It is because we have
allowed criminals and lawbreakers to rule us.
The very first sentence of the Constitution essentially defines the entire
structure of our government. "All legislative powers herein granted shall
be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a
Senate and House of Representatives." The rest of the Constitution lays
out "All the legislative powers" in great detail, which consist of the
limitations and restrictions that were to be placed on the federal
government. It is obvious that our founders were determined to grant
Congress only very limited, narrowly defined powers.
How far we have veered off that path!
The powers vested to Congress are specific, non-ambiguous and were
intended to be a comprehensive enumeration of the powers of
Congress. They were not intended to be a set of guidelines or a list of
suggestions. The limitations of power were designed into our
government because the framers of the Constitution were very aware
(with brilliant foresight) that power consolidated at the federal level
would lead to an eventual loss of our freedom.
Please take a moment to look at a summary of the vested powers of
Congress. Aside from these, Congress has no other powers. All other
powers belong to the states and the people. Any encroachment by the
Congress into state and individual powers (which is nearly everything
they do!) is an illegal usurpation of power.
Congress has the vested power to:
·Provide for the common defense
·Raise, fund and regulate the Army and the Navy
·Borrow money on the credit of the United States
·Declare war
·Approve treaties, Cabinet-level appointments, and appointments to the
Supreme Court (Senate only)
·Regulate the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
·Impeach (House only) and try (Senate only) federal officers
·Introduce Constitutional amendments, call a convention
·Override presidential vetoes
·Regulate commerce with foreign countries and between the states
·Establish rules for citizenship
·Coin money and regulate the value of currency, determine punishment
for counterfeiting
·Define and punish crimes committed at sea
·Establish federal courts
·Create all bills for raising revenue (House only)
·Levy and collect taxes, duties.
·Pay all debts
·Organize and arm the state militias
·Exercise exclusive jurisdiction over the
District of Columbia
·Establish post offices and postal roads
·Create bankruptcy laws
·Regulate patents and copyrights
·Assemble at least once in every year on the first Monday in December
·Establish times for elections
·Discipline it's own members
·Oversee all federal property and possessions (what few there should
be)
·Fill a vacancy in the Presidency in cases of death or inability
·Receive electoral votes for the Presidency
·Keep and publish a journal of its proceedings
·Conduct a census every ten years
As you can see, these vested powers range from the mundane, such as
writing a Congressional journal, on up to the big ones like raising and
regulating an army, declaring wars and approving treaties. From the
level of detail written into these defined powers, we know that the
framers of the Constitution intended to leave very little to interpretation.
These powers were to be the entirety of the powers of Congress.
If any were tempted to step outside of these specific limitations of power,
the Constitution goes even further and mandates that Congress pass
only the laws that are "necessary and proper" for executing the vested
powers.
Conspicuously missing from these clearly defined powers is any
Congressional authority for involvement in education, health care, food
distribution, housing, foreign aid, farming, transportation, spotted owls,
retirement, job creation, energy production, gun regulation, space
exploration, "family planning", day care, the "arts", community
development etc.
In other words, roughly 80% of the programs for which the Congress
provides funding are, in fact, illegal. Check out the 2003 budget and try
to find even the slightest correlation between this budget and the
powers that have been granted to Congress. How they could read the
Constitution and come up with a budget like this is a total mystery.
It is impossible to believe that those who serve us in Congress do not
understand the Constitutional limitations that have been placed on their
power. Since they ignore those limitations with impunity, we can
therefore conclude that the vast majority of those who swore an oath to
defend the Constitution did so knowing full well they intended to break
that oath (and the law) on a daily basis.
People who break the law on such a massive scale usually end up
behind bars. But, since the politicians seem to be immune from the laws
you and I must obey, the only thing we can do is work to kick every one
of the offenders out of office.
Unfortunately, it will be quite a challenge to replace the current group of
lawbreakers with politicians who will be any more likely to obey the law.
(Any who could ever get elected, that is!) Nearly a century of
brainwashing by our government schools has left us with few who
understand and believe in the Constitutional principal of limited
government.
One thing is for sure - if we continue to send the same lawbreakers back
to Washington year after year, the current downward spiral is only going
to get worse. A "lesser of two evils" voting trend has left us with a
Congress that is packed full of dishonest and evil men who are working
tirelessly in their efforts to destroy our country. Since the courts have
long ago abandoned any pretense of defending the Constitution, we are
the only ones can bring some sanity back into our government.
There is no easy answer, but it has become clear that the solution will
not be found within the "two-party" charade we call the Democratic and
the Republican parties, which for all practical purposes have merged
into one. We need to try something different.
Daniel Websterwas thinking a couple of hundred years ahead when he
said:
"I shall exercise every facility I possess in asking to prevent the
Constitution from being nullified, destroyed or impaired: and even
though I should see it fall, I will still, with voice feeble, perhaps, but
earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with fidelity and zeal which
nothing can extinguish … call on the people to come to its rescue."
Daniel Webster, 1782-1852
The hour is late. If ever there was a time when our
Constitution needed to be rescued, the time is now.
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The law was
added so that
the trespass
might increase.
But where sin
increased,
grace
increased all
the more, so
life through
Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Romans 5:20
added so that
the trespass
might increase.
But where sin
increased,
grace
increased all
the more, so
life through
Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Romans 5:20
So, my
brothers, you
also died to the
laws through
the body of
Christ, that you
might belong to
another, to him
who was raised
from the dead,
in order that we
might bear fruit
to God. For
when we were
controlled by
the sinful sinful
passion that
was aroused by
the law was at
work in our
bodies, so that
we boar fruit
from death. But
now, by dying
to what once
bound us, we
have been
released from
the law so that
we serve in the
new way of the
Spirit, and not
in the old way
of the written
code.
Romans 7:4
brothers, you
also died to the
laws through
the body of
Christ, that you
might belong to
another, to him
who was raised
from the dead,
in order that we
might bear fruit
to God. For
when we were
controlled by
the sinful sinful
passion that
was aroused by
the law was at
work in our
bodies, so that
we boar fruit
from death. But
now, by dying
to what once
bound us, we
have been
released from
the law so that
we serve in the
new way of the
Spirit, and not
in the old way
of the written
code.
Romans 7:4
Christ
redeemed us
Galatians 3:13
redeemed us
Galatians 3:13
Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up
until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us
to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we
are no longer under the supervision of the law.
Galatians 3:23
But when the time had fully come,God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the
full rights of sons.
Galatians 4;4
until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us
to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we
are no longer under the supervision of the law.
Galatians 3:23
But when the time had fully come,God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the
full rights of sons.
Galatians 4;4
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LisaBrown@house.mi.gov, bobconstan@house.mi.gov,
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