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Skriven 2011-02-21 13:45:07 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 14254 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
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20 Feb 11 09:07, Robert Bashe wrote to Bob Ackley:

 RB> [The US Constitution and the President]

 BA>> Insofar as how much power or control he has, he is effectively a
 BA>> dictator if he wants to be. Congress ceded that authority to the
 BA>> executive in 1935.

 RB> Congress is only one arm of government, like the executive. And the
 RB> constitution _still_ determines what is legal and what isn't.

It would help if the present POTUS would adhere to the Constitution rather
than bypass it. And, now that the Congress is a conservative majority in
at least one house, it may begin to recognize the Constitution again. Then
all we can do is hope that the USSC will continue to define it so that
it's lower courts will discontinue to re-write it from the bench.

 BA>> There's no practical difference between a presidential "executive
 BA>> order" and any of Hitler's decrees of seventy years ago...

 RB> Except that the president can't dissolve congress and rule by decree,

He doesn't need to desolve them.

He's already bypassed the Congress by decreeing that the BATFE register
all long-gun sales in the southern border states. Something that Congress
has said was not their job in the first place, let alone against the law
that disallows registration of firearms.

And then there's the FCC's action to regulate the airwaves by Presidential
decree to take controversial talk-radio people off the air. Which the FCC
has no power to do according to Congress. (Congress regulates the FCC)

 RB> with no recourse to the judiciary. And of course, that Executive
 RB> Orders are only valid in specific circumstances/areas.

So it's supposed to be. But that's not how it is.

 BA>> The only US president that had the right idea was Thomas Jefferson -
 BA>> "That government is best which governs least."

 RB> Which was a possibility in his day, but only a nice thought in
 RB> today's world.

Take a look at California's situation. It seems that their new governor
has seen the light (he's a democrat no less) and has begun to reduce
government there. Big government was their problem to begin with and will
remain so, unless they begin to trim it from the top down.

 RB> You might also note that in Jefferson's day it was normal for the
 RB> sons of slaveholders to get their initial sexual experience with
 RB> female slaves. That's changed since, too - interestingly enough,
 RB> largely because of government interference.

And free love. With modern times comes more promiscuity because of the
advances in birth control and the ready availability of abortion.

                R\%/itt

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