'Trump Is A King!' Say People Freely Protesting In A Free Country

U.S. — Thousands of free Americans gathered in cities across the country today to lament their lack of freedom by holding rallies while shouting "Trump is a king!" and exercising their right to freely protest in a free country.

The downtrodden, oppressed, upper-middle-class populace in urban centers throughout the United States boldly made their voices heard to decry President Donald Trump as acting like an all-powerful monarch as they openly protested and displayed their liberties in the freest society on Earth.

"Trump is a tyrant! He has taken away our freedoms!" cried Mable Mcclean, a 68-year-old bisexual Episcopalian priest and part-time slam poet. "We will not tolerate any president who sees himself as a king! No kings! Unless it's Barack Obama. Then, it might be ok to have a king."

Anti-Trump protesters raged at his near-omnipotence. "He's just doing whatever he wants," another rallygoer said. "Nobody is standing in his way. Except for Congress. And the media. And Hollywood. And multiple rogue federal judges. And every member of the Democratic Party. We don't even live in a free country where we can protest, which is why we're protesting. It's time for us to draw a line in the sand and stand up to demand the right to do exactly what we're all doing today."

At publishing time, the large crowds had dissipated, as it was time for their afternoon Metamucil.

For any concept of kingship for this country one must. look at the Administrative State. The Civil War through application of military caused the victorious party to arrive at a destination. The Constitution was amended to abolish slavery, but the issues of states’ rights, suffrage including women, Jim Crow, and secession were never addressed beyond the dictates imposed by a faction. The United States lost the Civil War, and we live with an impoverished understanding of these issues and a weakened Bill of Rights.

People became inattentive to the constitutional principle that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States”. The word “all” was chosen because Great Britain had suffered the consequences of extra-legal, supra-legal, and consolidated power locating legislative, executive, and judicial prerogatives with a king.

Congress could begin to improperly delegate its lawmaking power to administrative agencies by claiming pragmatism and necessity, and superiority for bureaucratic skills. The consequence would be the re-emergence of absolute power as practiced by kings of old through their prerogative powers and courts. Such an approach by Congress represented an unlawful intrusion on individual liberty allowing rules and regulations to become legislative power without laws and bind adjudication without common law courts. The stage was set for the twentieth century creation of the Administrative State.

As the first extensive practitioner of this new form of government, Franklin Roosevelt would establish a myriad of agencies staffed by unelected, unconfirmed experts who would rule and not serve citizens. Instead of legislating, Congress henceforward would create legislators residing within impenetrable agencies. Instead of inherent individual liberties constraining government, a host of bureaucrats becoming autocrats would confer rights upon and apply constraints to those who should be citizens.

The result is hundreds of thousands of kings sitting in cubicles, cherishing their precious regulations, and regarding the people of this country as their subjects. The best analogy I can think of would probably be Oogie Boogie from the Nightmare Before Christmas. He is composed of thousands of bugs that have their own agendas and may or may not be focused on his evil intent, but all contribute to his actions. Now doesn’t the greatest reliance on the Administrative state reside within the Democrat Party?

The Supreme Court recently recognized the problem in a 9 to 0 ruling. Justice Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court saying, “One respondent attacks as well the combination of prosecutorial and adjudicatory functions in a single agency….They maintain in essence that the agencies as currently structured, are unconstitutional in much of their work”.

I can give another analogy here using a passage where Fredrick Douglass describes overseer duties. I only substituted for the words slave, overseer, and master. “No matter how innocent a citizen might be it availed him nothing when accused by the bureaucrat of any violation of a regulation. To be accused was to be convicted and to be convicted was to be punished….To escape punishment was to escape accusation….few citizens had the fortune to do either under the overseership of the agency.”

Supreme Court 9, Administrative State 0

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The History and Danger of Administrative Law

https://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/the-history-and-danger-of-administrative-law/

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