Posted on 07/19/2016 9:08:13 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Our federal government was not assumed by royalty or nobility, but was created by the sovereign states. The creature and the limited delegated authority entrusted to it at creation cannot be superior in power to their creator. The federal government may be larger in size, but not necessarily greater in authority.
Understanding this foundational principle and enforcing proper governmental boundaries are essential to protecting the people from the tyranny of a large, centralized government. America’s application of this principle is unique in that local elected officials are not considered lesser in terms of authority, but greater.
For example, county sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authority within their county because they are elected by the people and are given authority by the people for their protection. If a state or federal agent enters the county, that agent must answer to the authority of the local sheriff. The people are protected from outside encroachment because of this essential chain of command. For this reason, the sheriff has the authority to organize a militia of volunteer citizens if needed in an emergency; especially if that emergency involves a tyrannical federal government acting outside its delegated authority.
This essential protection by local elected officials is exactly what America’s framers intended, as stated by James Madison in Federalist Papers #51. Madison writes, “A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices...
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Local leaders are typically incompetent. However,they can still impose taxes which leads to tax and spend the populace into poverty.
Apathy is the local corrupt official’s best friend.
In ILL-ANNOY, we are the poster children for representative irrelevance. There are TWO people to tell everyone how to vote: Governor Rauner dictates the R vote or will withhold campaign finance, and Madigan controls all D votes or will withhold campaign finance. Get out of line and committee assignments change or your pet legislation is tanked. ILL-ANNOY is subject to rigged district mapping which is used as a brickbat against Rs and may be used in the same manner to get preferred Ds power bases.
They did that when they ratified the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Most, if not all, public schools have been teaching the opposite for decades. Almost nobody knows what the proper role of the Sheriff is.
The schools teach that Washington has all the power and rightfully so. Implicit in this is they also ignore and/or trivialize the Constitution.
Only if we the people let this happen...and at our own peril.
Name 5 things you have done to help competent local officials get elected in the last 5 years.
Why 5? Who states 5 things are necessary to get competent local officials elected? I vote which along with jury and military service is all that is expected of a citizen. We are overwhelmed with illegal aliens and their corrupt supporters. The alien comes to plunder, and you know it.
I expect more, and I do more. Self government requires you be involved in government, that’s how it works. And the alien stuff has very little to do with local government, in this context it is a deflection.
Go find a non-idiot local candidate and provide material support in money and/or time.
State and Local officials became Constitutionally irrelevant with the adoption of the 17th Amendment.
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