The United States, a constitutional republic, has a Constitution to limit all three branches of the federal government which is composed of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The Constitution gives to each branch certain specific power, while at the same time limiting the power by what it doesn’t give to them.  That which isn’t stated in the Constitution is forbidden to each branch and that which isn’t stated is reserved to the people and the states respectively under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments.

Unfortunately, the limited power provisions are no longer observed, and since they aren’t, our government has evolved into a strange sort of system resembling fascism with three dictators composed of the executive, legislative, and the judicial. The President issues executive orders which have no constitutional standing except when they are to help his work of administering the executive offices. The President constitutionally can’t issue orders to the general populace and yet it is done, and if the orders aren’t obeyed, then it is a violation of the law. Let’s call the unconstitutional executive orders Presidential Fascism.

The next area of intrusion in the lives of the people is by Congress. The elected representatives of the House and Senate routinely ignore the limits of the Constitution, proposing bills and passing many into law, and unfortunately most are unconstitutional. There doesn’t seem to be any area of life that the politicians won’t enter with end result being both the loss of freedom from government intrusion and the liberty to conduct business, public and private, without the collective nose of the camel invading the tent.

Congress, without any constitutional authority has decided to tell auto and truck manufacturers to increase mileage of the vehicles. Most members know very little about engineering, and yet they consider themselves experts on vehicle performance. All of it is under the guise of decreasing the nation’s use of energy. Baloney! The greater the mileage of any vehicle the more it will be driven and the net gain for less use of the energy resource will be zero.

The other area that is not one of the powers of government is setting a minimum wage. Former Senator, John Edwards, wants to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 by 2012. (See the Edwards malarkey at the bottom of the article.) Just as with the vehicle mandates, Congress has no authority to tell any business how much they must pay an employee. It is easy to spout and dictate when the “spouter” has no financial interest in the matter except appealing to voters in hopes it will gain him enough votes so that one day he will be elected president.

In summation of the foregoing paragraph and the one about vehicle mileage, let’s call those wacko ideas, only two of many, Congressional Fascism.

The last area for a short examination is the judicial branch. The United States Supreme Court has been eroding the Constitution for many years with rulings against economic freedom, religious freedom, and education. Working both in consort with and against the other two branches, the justices rule with an iron hand to the extent that they make laws instead of deciding issues. From prayer to abortion, the court has unconstitutionally enacted legislation through wrong-headed reasoning and thereby forced draconian rule onto the nation. Their wrong rulings can be overturned, but Congress doesn’t have the will to do so, using the excuse they can’t. (Yet, some members are screaming that they will set aside the latest ruling against using race for admission to schools.) The Constitution limits the power of the Supreme Court to certain classes of cases and Congress can further limit its power as well as the power of the inferior federal courts. Since Congress won’t rein in the court, it has ridden roughshod over the rights of the people (hopefully it will change with more conservative members attuned to the Constitution) to appease liberal factions. We’ll call the court’s action Judicial Fascism.

In summing up the series, while only a skimming of the various issues was possible, it is apparent that our government is more and more usurping powers not given to it in the Constitution. The rights of the people are being trampled under the heavy heel of elected officials and appointed bureaucrats, which includes the federal court system. Undeniably, the nation faces a peril to freedom and liberty by the ones who are supposed to safe guard them for us. The issue is clear. In Sorting It Out, if the people do not end the power mad officials reign through lawful process, there will come a day when jack booted thugs will knock on the door and make demands that far exceed, “Let me see your papers.” And they won’t say please.

© 07-05-2007 DEC

 Below is the malarkey of the man who pays hundreds to thousands of dollars for a haircut.

Edwards Wants Minimum Wage Increased to $9.50
July 2, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - The first minimum wage hike in 10 years is not enough for Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. The former North Carolina senator wants to increase the minimum wage again to $9.50 by 2012. The minimum wage was recently increased from $5.15 an hour to $7.25. "Raising the minimum wage is one of the most important steps we can take to lift working families out of poverty and into the middle class," said Edwards, who also wants to index the minimum wage and tie it to the national average wage. "No one who works full-time should have to live in poverty," he added. "If a job takes you away from your family every single day - or for many low-wage workers, all through the night - it had better pay you enough to support them."" http://www.cnsnews.com/ThisHour.asp#Edwards%20Wants%20Minimum%20Wage%20Increased%20to%20$9.50