The genius of our Founding Fathers was that they understood that power corrupts and that government is a self serving institution that cannot be trusted.
The US Constitution is in it’s entirety a document designed to lay out the structure/design of government, the basic operating systems and confines or limits of government powers.
Today with a massive government bureaucracy that makes laws by the day and side steps they entire intended and designed process (Agencies making regulations with the power of the law behind them). Fix: Any government regulation still has to get simple majority approval by House and Senate if a rule is made that affects the public may it be a small portion or everyone. If anyone outside the agency is impacted financially, or restricted in any way conducting business, government needs to follow the Constitutional process in how laws are made.
*** Ironically, the government agency today does not enforce or protect the US Constitution and serve the people, but is looking for ways around this obstacle “Constitution,” may it be the NSA, FBI, CIA, DEA, EPA, FDA, TSA, ATF, FAA... This is the true question they ask themselves: how can I control, regulate, search or tax EVERYTHING, i.e. grow our organization, create more senior executive positions, justify or increase our budget? A document like the US Constitution which “limits” government powers is inherently opposed to the interests of these government agencies which spend millions of tax dollars using their lawyers to argue how to get around these restrictions. Real world examples: guns, pot, TSA searches at airports, our big brother mass surveillance programs by the Intel community, the FAA and their crazy medical requirements for private pilots a few years ago, the EPA dictating how much water a toilet uses per flush and shutting the last US lead acid battery factory down a few years ago and celebrating that internally as if it was a great accomplishment, the DEA requiring reporting on the purchase of frigging decongestant, the NIH/CDC requiring reporting of sensitive and personal information to them regards whatever they deem important...
Bill of Rights having been abridged (all 10 of them have exclusions/exceptions and no longer are in force). Fix: Heads of government agencies and all bureaucrats get remedial training on what the Bill of Rights are. By law heads of government agencies are “personally culpable” if a persons civil rights are violated by some government agency for up to 20 years after the incident and it is up to state courts to determine if there was a violation. i.e. if as a consequence of “policy” someones rights were violated, the appointed heads of those agencies can be held both criminally and civilly liable. It’s the “policy” that the head signed off on which has to be proven to violate peoples civil rights, example if the head of the TSA orders as a matter of policy that people are searched at airports and it is deemed that this violates a basic Constitutional right of not being searched in person or affects without probable cause and a warrant, then the head of the TSA can look at criminal or civil legal action against him.
A small political elite that stays in power forever and creates political dynasties, almost always by selling favors through their office held to special interests that are willing to give them kick backs (usually legally and right under the nose of everyone, you just need some savvy lawyers to help you in how to do it). This is how public servants become multi millionaires and billionaires like the Clinton’s, Kennedy’s, Biden’s, and others. Fix: Term limits. That simple. Almost all these dynasties are the consequence of the eternal legislator. The same issue was with the president and FDR proved that this is a real problem. Today it is the legislative branch that suffers from this problem.
Nice rap.