What in the hell has happened to our unalienable rights of life, liberty and property? What happened to the federalist principles of self-government established in our Constitution? In today’s America, those unassailable rights are permissible on conditions set forth by federal government bureaucrats and judges. This isn’t the America of our Founders. Hell this isn’t America, period.
The Obama administration exposed the hard reality
that we aren’t the country we thought we were.
We’ve been slowly transforming into a European socialist welfare state
and it’s been going on for a long time.
An article published in Powerline revealed just how
this kudzu-like administrative state has grown by spreading its vines into the
very fabric of American culture, and as you can expect, this ideology was
nurtured in greenhouses of higher learning.
Here is an excerpt:
Studying administrative law in law school, I don’t think we read
anything that raised questions about the legitimacy of the agencies giving rise
to to it. We took it as a given and picked up the story with the passage of the
Administrative Procedure Act in 1946. We should have taken a look at the
question of legitimacy in constitutional law, and probably did, though the
standard New Deal account I would have received is extremely misleading.
Exercising executive, legislative and
judicial powers, the agencies are a constitutional anomaly. When it comes to a
government of limited powers based on the powers allocated and divided among
the three branches, the administrative agencies don’t really fit. I am honor
bound to add that the Supreme Court doesn’t quite see things my way, although
Douglas Ginsburg spells out elementary principles (and cites some relevant case
law) in “Legislative powers: Not yours to give away.”
The origins of the American administrative state
began in 1857 when Columbia University hired Francis Lieber, a German immigrant,
to teach a new discipline called “political science.” His successor was another imported German, John
William Burgess, who indoctrinated a whole generation of Americans into the “virtues”
of administrative sciences including Woodrow Wilson. This new philosophy is alien to American
self-governance. Here is an excerpt from Living Constitution,
Dying Faith:
The birth of American political science created a
bastion within the academy for the view that perpetual societal improvement is
possible and inevitable, partly because of evolutionary unfolding, but partly
with the aid of the right kind of superintendence. The institutional and theoretical departures
implied by this view would have made the new political science unrecognizable
to the American Founders, whose “new science of politics” had almost nothing in
common with it. It was certainly the
case that the new political science, in its dismissive contempt for traditional
political philosophy, and unchanging principles of political right, and ideas
and institutions from prior centuries, turned its back on the Founders. For the most part, it still does. American political science therefore remains
almost genetically incapable of understanding the Constitution of the fathers.
So there it is.
Americans have been indoctrinated into accepting an administrative state
that is outright hostile to our very essence.
And now that we’re confronted with a kudzu-esque bureaucracy, citizens
are beginning to wonder if we have any recourse before we are completely
subsumed by this foreign entity.
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