Posted on 06/14/2025 1:41:33 PM PDT by DFG
My thoughts exactly.
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
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4145682/posts
The History and Danger of Administrative Law
https://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/the-history-and-danger-of-administrative-law/
Not a peep from the far left when Biden let an invasion of 20 million illegal aliens invade our country either.
Do kings serve a fixed term? Are kings limited in total duration of service? Are they subject to removal by the legislature?
Once again, The Babylon Bee hits it out of the park.
Exactly right sentiment and tone for this foolishness.
Agreed, The unbelievable STUPIDITY of these rallies is just astounding!
He is My King.
S*ck It.
"George Floyd protests" ... "No Kings protests" ... what next, idiot Democrats? ...
Bee, that is funny...I guess they are full of it, so they'd need it...
THE FACT THAT THEY CAN PROTEST NO KINGS PROVES THAT WE HAVE NO KINGS. I THINK JULY 4TH CELEBRATES THAT!
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