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To: EternalVigilance
From George Washington's Farewell Address

"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. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield."

I can sympathize the objective, but your chosen means suck skunk butt.

224 posted on 06/14/2012 11:28:01 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Please explain how the executive - whose primary charge is the execution of the laws, of which the Constitution is supreme - securing the lives of the innocents who are being slaughtered - as the Constitution explicitly and imperatively demands - can be an encroachment on the other branches, or a usurpation of any other branch’s legitimate power.

Your quote from Washington is a non sequitur.

The usurpers and tyrants are those who are aiding and abetting the killing of children, not those who desire to protect them. You have the world turned upside down.


225 posted on 06/14/2012 12:17:05 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The saving of the republic begins the day conservatives stop supporting what they say they hate.)
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To: tacticalogic

By the way, you obviously don’t understand my “chosen means” at all. Your blinders won’t let you see it.

If all other officers of government, at all levels, in every branch, will simply do THEIR first sworn duty, which is to equally protect the lives of the people, the president won’t have to do anything at all.

http://www.equalprotectionforposterity.com/the-equal-protection-for-posterity-resolution.html


227 posted on 06/14/2012 12:32:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The saving of the republic begins the day conservatives stop supporting what they say they hate.)
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