Posted by
CKHustler on Saturday, February 28, 2009 12:57:47 AM
These Departments Should Not Be So Far Separated as to Have No
Constitutional Control Over Each Other
From the New York Packet. Friday, February 1, 1788.
MADISON
Federalist Paper #48
"It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that
it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned
to it."
I ask, who is restraining the federal government from going beyond the constitution? The supreme court certainly isn't doing their job, so who else even can? The people! I was watching Glenn Beck today and he made this exact point. The media is SUPPOSED to be keeping an eye out for us, but they are too busy shining Obama's shoes to notice anything going on. Most of them are lacking any brain function to know that Obama's policies eventually lead to the government owning the press. Without the media, who else is there? We have only ourselves. The only way to learn the truth is to really listen to what Obama has to say and then check out the facts online. More often than not, you will find that he lies on many accounts. Pulling out the troops? Well, he is at the same rate Bush planned on, yet all we hear is that he is pulling out our troops by August 2010, not the 50k that will remain. The people must educate themselves on economic systems and how they have fared in the past. Have government run economies done better than free market? Just check out the most prosperous countries and you tell me. Capitalism will always outstrip socialism and that is what you will find. Believe me, I have checked. So in the end, only the people can stand up against their government. If we never do, eventually we will have a tyranny on our hands. Remember, the only thing Hitler did to gain the power he did was suspend the constitution. He didn't tell the people he would get rid of it, but that he would suspend it in light of recent events. The constitution is what our country MUST live by or we are no longer a republic. We must force it upon our elected officials that they must follow the contract.
"A great number of laws had been passed, violating, without any apparent
necessity, the rule requiring that all bills of a public nature shall
be previously printed for the consideration of the people; although
this is one of the precautions chiefly relied on by the constitution
against improper acts of legislature. The constitutional trial by jury
had been violated, and powers assumed which had not been delegated by
the constitution. Executive powers had been usurped. The salaries of
the judges, which the constitution expressly requires to be fixed, had
been occasionally varied; and cases belonging to the judiciary
department frequently drawn within legislative cognizance and
determination."
Even at that time they were breaching their state constitution. I could think of a way of doing something of the sort for our federal government today. Gather all the political analysis on the major networks. Go through any major programs, say anything spending over 1 billion or something, and if someone can say it is unconstitutional and it is seconded, then its gone. Boy would that clear things up. In all seriousness, how could we possibly find a group of unbiased people to be a judge on something of this nature. The supreme court has a job and that is it, yet they are asleep at the wheel. I don't have an answer for how something like this could be done, but it would be nice if we could find a way and get it going.
Since that was another short one...I will go on an impromptu rant again.
Ill go with the housing bubble. Check out this 6 minute video on housing prices for the past 100+ years in the US.