Posted on 09/01/2015 8:07:10 PM PDT by pgyanke
How Laws are Made in Modern America
by PGYanke
Step 1. Identify the social cause you wish to champion.
Step 2. Make a law the prohibits that social cause.
Step 3. Argue your case to the USSC that Step 2 law is unconstitutional.
Step 4. Law is declared unconstitutional by USSC and social cause is now mandatory.
Example 1:
Step 1. Social cause is Gays in the Military.
Step 2. Pass "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Step 3. Go before court to argue against your own law.
Step 4. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is unconstitutional according to USSC, so now the military must accept homosexuals.
Example 2:
Step 1. Social cause is Gay Marriage.
Step 2. Pass "Defense of Marriage Act."
Step 3. Go before court to argue against DOMA.
Step 4. USSC says DOMA unconstitutional so now Gay Marriage is the law of the land.
And THAT is how laws are made in modern America. Any questions?
You forgot the administrative state.
1) Elect a dictator
2) Dictator appoints secretary of something
3) Secretary of something hires power-hungry bureaucrat
4) Power-hungry bureaucrat says ozone pollution is x parts per million
5) Suddenly millions are in violation of law.
The dictator already knows that we are all guilty.....of something!
The bureaucracy does exactly what you describe.
The EPA makes “rules” about pollution or wetlands or what have you. They make “rules” which have the force of law, but they are laws which were never voted on by Congress, and laws which seem to exceed the authority of the EPA.
Good breakdown of this vile manipulation tactic. The slight of hand being that the removal of the law doesn’t reestablish the status quo, it destroys it.
Presto change-o, a New World Order.
Ebola (upon returning from the golf course), just whips out his pen and phone, and Shazam! Stroke of the pen, law of the land!
Great post!
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: "Court is Where Policy is Made"
Judge Sonia Sotomayor: "Court is Where Policy is Made":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q
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