One problem we have is that you can’t use the Constitution only when you feel it is usefull.
Again as I have said before, the authority of government is DERIVED FROM the people. It is not the governmenment doling out rights to the individuals.
If we were true to our form of constitutional government, one branch overstepping its bounds would be blocked by the other two.
Since we have morphed into an administrative form of government, when a bureacrat overteps his bounds the individual citizen has the burden to block the illegitimate use of power, often spending thousands of dollars from his own pocket to right the system and perhaps suffering irrepairable harm, such as Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Selodm is there an admission of guilt and generally hearings only serve to whitewash the atrocities.
It would be interesting for those who clamored for the government to take the children away from this group, how they would feel if Social Services yanked their kids because of some false accusation.
Because of current lack of checks and balances as the government is supposed to do, government officials should be PERSONALLY criminally and fincally liable.
George Washington said:
“It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes.”