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To: jazusamo

The four branches of government are;

Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Regulatory

Not all are accountable to the people and nulify the concept of a Representative Republic.


10 posted on 10/21/2012 2:06:49 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: umgud
Not all are accountable to the people and nulify the concept of a Representative Republic.

Well said and sadly true.

Obama has abused that regulatory branch as no other president has, he has to go!

17 posted on 10/21/2012 2:11:16 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: umgud
Not all are accountable to the people...

... and, currently, NONE of them are.

19 posted on 10/21/2012 2:17:52 PM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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To: umgud
Not all are accountable to the people and nulify the concept of a Representative Republic.

-with some inspiration from Hayek:

Delegation as such need not be a danger to freedom.

The interesting point is why delegation has become necessary on such a scale. First place among the causes enumerated is given to the fact that "Congress nowadays passes so many laws every year" and that "much of the detail is so technical as to be unsuitable for Congressional discussion".

But if this were all there would be no reason why the detail should not be worked out before rather than after Congress passes a law. What is probably in many cases a much more important reason why, "if Congress were not willing to delegate law-making power, Congress would be unable to pass the kind and quantity of legislation which public opinion requires" is innocently revealed in the little sentence that "many of the laws affect people's lives so closely that elasticity is essential"!

What does this mean if not conferment of arbitrary power, power limited by no fixed principles and which in the opinion of Congress cannot be limited by definite and unambiguous rules?


50 posted on 10/21/2012 5:57:39 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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