http://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-if-people-actually-controlled-government
We haven’t had [a Democratic Republic] in the US for a very long time, even if what I just mapped out seems more or less like what the US Constitution set up.
There are two main reasons why we are so far from that ideal.
First, the US system was supposed to exalt the juridical sovereignty of the “several states” so that the central government was of secondary importance.
Second, a fourth branch of government gradually came into existence. It is what we now call the administrative state. It consists of millions of employees with maximum power who answer to absolutely no one. The Federal Register lists 432 agencies that currently employ people who are beyond legislative reach but they still make policy and determine the structure of the regime under which we live. But we the people have no real control over them.
Not even the president can control them. This system was created with one piece of legislation in 1883 called the Pendleton Act. The New Deal exploited the new system. The administrative state even got its own constitution in 1946 called the Administrative Procedures Act. The 1984 Supreme Court decision in Chevron vs NRDC even entrenched deference to the agency’s interpretation of the law.
The result is something the Founders never imagined: hundreds of three-letter agencies exercising hegemonic control over the country. ....
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http://brownstone.org/articles/the-astonishing-implications-of-schedule-f/
wo weeks before the 2020 general election, on October 21, 2020, Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O. 13957) on “Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service.”
It sounds boring. Actually, it would have fundamentally changed, in the best possible way, the entire functioning of the administrative bureaucracy that rules this country in a way that bypasses both the legislative and judicial process, and has ruined the checks and balances inherent in the US Constitution.
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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