Posted on 07/01/2018 8:40:38 AM PDT by gattaca
Full Title: Steve Hilton: I didn't get the true genius of America's founders until I moved here. Here's what worries me now. July Fourth is a moment for all of us to reflect on America and what it means – and that’s particularly true this year, as the holiday comes right after a week in politics that revealed the great challenges America’s system of government is facing. The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy – and the left’s reaction to it – should give us all pause this Independence Day. I studied America’s system of government years ago when I was an undergraduate at Oxford University....
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That's what a true Republic is.
It has been said that all forms of government eventually degrade into either Oligarchy or a Republic. Fascism, Communism, Democracy, etc. -- they all become Oligarchies where laws don't matter but Rule of Men holds sway.
We have Rule of Law in this country, and the Democrats hate it.
I am going to DVR this FOX Special! Thanks for,posting this!
While I admire Mr. Hilton, I think that if I asked Oxford-indoctrinated Hilton why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I that I’d get a blank look.
“I think that if I asked Oxford-indoctrinated Hilton why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I that I’d get a blank look.”
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And you would probably get that from a lot of people,like me. I had to look it up.
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While I admire Mr. Hilton, I think that if I asked Oxford-indoctrinated Hilton why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I that I’d get a blank look.
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Duh, most people would have to look it up.
Good for Mr. Hilton.
I read, some years back an essay or judicial opinion on Politics as practiced by the judiciary.
In essence it enumerated a list of types of cases that the SCOTUS should not get involved in because it's politics and that whenever the SCOTUS ignores that list they take a chance that they will demean the court and lessen its value, a value that it cannot recover from, with the ultimate consequence of the Executive simply ignoring the ruling with either a negative or positive affirmation from the Legislature.
On that list something like interfering with one party's gerrymandering was considered to exist in the political sphere only and the Judicial system had no place in deciding unless there was a clear cut person or NGO who had standing based on a strict scrutiny of direct harm.
I'm always amazed when SCOTUS actually established an opinion in a legislative vs executive court battle, because whatever the issue is, both sides have their own remedy and the SCOTUS should just nullify any prior decisions by lesser courts and remind the Legislative and executive that they have their own means of remedy -- so long as there is no real standing for people or NGO's who will actually be harmed in an unconstitutional way.
Finally, the result and unintended consequences of judicial interference has essentially created 7 branches of government with varying levels of influence: The Judiciary, the executive, the legislative, the Bureaucrats, the GOP, the DNC, and the Media.
OK Steve Hilton..... How do you feel about the royals? The UK’s lack of a Constitution.... that would guarantee the freedom of speech?
How about the $97 million in tax-free income from the government as the queen’s annual “sovereign grant.”?
And the estimated $440 million to maintain the rest of the royal family each year, with about one-third of that for security.
The Crown Estate has 263,000 farmed acres and about half of the U.K.’s shoreline, and almost all the seabed to the 12-mile territorial limit.
That means the Queen gets all of the oil revenue offshore to 12 miles.
With all that income the royals can’t pay for even their own living and security expenses?
Gotta love that electoral college. A pure stroke of genius.
Note that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified that Congress cannot make laws, including tax laws, that it cannot justify under its Section 8-limited powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Also note that the Founding States had established the Senate partly to kill House bills that not only steal state powers, but also state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according to the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above.
The problem is that the state legislatures later foolishly ratified the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A), unthinkingly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so.
As a consequence of 17A, low-information voters elect senators who not only evidently don’t know the fed’s Section 8-limited powers any better than the voters do, but who also work in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to pass bills that steal state powers and revenues.
The Senate then protects Congress's mischief by confirming state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices who declare Congress’s unconstitutional laws to be constitutional.
Are we having fun yet?
What a mess! 8^P
This is why patriots not only need to give Pres. Trump a new Trump-supporting, state sovereignty-respecting Congress in the 2018 midterm elections, but patriots also need to support Trump in leading the states to repeal the 16th & 17th Amendments.
I struggled for a definition of Fascism for years. Never completely understanding what type of politics it was. Until it dawned on me that any form of government can be fascist. So fascist socialism, fascist communism, fascism republics. So fascism is how the government is controlled with fascism being: The control through intimidation, threats, suppression of dissent, strong arming the judicial system and legislative branch. A democratic government would be the opposite. Different opinions are heard, court decisions are respected and the legislative branch can fulfil its duties. No government strong arming to dissuade protests. Having a police presence during a demonstration when there is a threat of violent clashes between a counter protest would not qualify as strong arming.
With definition in mind we can discern that Antifa are the real fascists projecting their fascism on the currently conservative government.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Right on!
They understand that they can never rule over us until that happens.
The Tree of Liberty - and the rule of law which supports it, i.e. the Constitution - is ready to topple from the assaults upon it.
We have descended into a stealth oligarchy and the rule of law has been mocked openly by those running our government.
Whether things change and it’s not too late depend entirely upon Trump having no skeletons and not succumbing to an “accident”.
The precarious nature of our current position - on all fronts - is absolutely frightening when one considers the abject stupidity of those who openly promote our destruction with their selfish, simpleton causes in the “name of the people”.
That tree depends upon us to defend it; it’s survival is not a foregone conclusion.
you beat me to the exact same statement.
Fascism is the softer sell of communism in that it gives the pretense of private ownership. Yes you can own your own factory but the state will control the production process. Yes you can own your own home but the state will tell you how you’re going to live in it. Communism makes no such pretense but both systems are the same in that you don’t have the right to the privacy of your own speech, thoughts or writings.
1st: mouth and tongue.
2nd: teeth and jaws.
Both left. As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn of Austria makes clear in his book, Leftism.
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