Patriots are reminded that there is no such thing as an independent board of the federal government under the Constitution where domestic policy is concerned.
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In fact, the Founding States made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify the following.
All federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats running constitutionally undefined federal regulatory agencies such as the EPA, IRS and NTSB as examples.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
What’s going on is that Congress has wrongly front-ended “government” powers with non-elected bureaucrats. By letting these bureaucrats define domestic policy, lawmakers are able to protect their voting records. And by protecting their voting records, corrupt lawmakers are able to fool low-information patriots, patriots who have never been taught the fed’s constitutional limited powers, into reelecting them.
But what’s even worse regarding federal agencies like the NTSB is the following. Most of the powers that Congress is letting faceless bureaucrats get away with exercising are not constitutionally express federal powers, but state powers that the feds have stolen from the states which the feds use to oppress the states and their citizens.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
Remember in November ’18 !
Since Trump entered the ’16 presidential race too late for patriots to make sure that there were state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the primary ballots, patriots need make sure that such candidates are on the ’18 primary ballots so that they can be elected to support Trump in draining the unconstitutionally big federal government swamp.
Such a Congress will also be able to finish draining the swamp with respect to getting the remaining state sovereignty-ignoring, activist Supreme Court justices off of the bench.
Noting that the primaries start in Iowa and New Hampshire in February ‘18, patriots need to challenge candidates for federal office in the following way.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to find candidates that are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed below.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphasis added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
From my experience with this sort of thing, I think the best approach is to allow Congress to give executive branch departments the authority to draft regulations, but to require all such regulations to be approved by Congress before they can be enforced.