“Then when I’m President I’ll have to dissolve them in addition to the Air Force......”
Good luck with that....as I recall the Constitution is not the suicide pact you seem to think it is. The US goverment is tasked by the Constitution with providing for the common defense. Seems to me that they have done just that with the armed forces as currently constituted... Now wiggle back into your rabbit hole...Alice is waiting for you.
And who said that such a stance wouldn't?
Seems to me that they have done just that with the armed forces as currently constituted...
If even the basic structure outlined in the Constitution for the Armed forces cannot be followed, then what makes you think that any of it can?
Or, to put it another way, if the Air Force can be granted legitimacy outside of the Constitution, then why can't the ACA [ObamaCare] also be granted legitimacy? Oh, wait, it was. And for the same reason: The constitution has no respect from those in government.
It's ridiculous to say "we want the Constitution followed" and then ignore what the Constitution says.
And in any case, if such agencies are needful to the "common defence" the Constitution can be amended to allow for them... if they need to be separate at all. (I'd rather see them under the Army and Navy; just keep the two branches and let them be subsections -- it's a hell of a lot simpler that way.)