Congress Has Perverted It's Constitutional Duty

by

       M. Richard Maxson

      The very first clause of the very first section of the very first article of the Constitution says: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives - all legislative powers. Today, most of our laws are now made by men and women not of our own choosing. They are done by bureaucracies known as the Deep State. The term Deep State refers to “a state within a state,” a group of people who have so much control inside of a state that they don’t actually have to abide by the same laws, largely because they’re the ones creating them.

      The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. The men and women who work in our bureaucracies and who write these regulations that impose new rules, new burdens on the American people are mostly well educated Leftists still in place from the Clinton and Obama administrations. They are hard working and well intentioned to their cause but there is one critical feature they do not possess which members of Congress do. That is they're not elected by the people and they don't have the responsibility or the authority under the text of the Constitution to make law. Then why, as a violation of the Constitution, are they allowed to do it?

       The Constitution ought to be applied as it was written -- it wasn't poetry, to be interpreted by the self-proclaimed moral superiors, but a legal document requiring specific legal interpretation. The Constitution cannot protect our rights if we do not protect the Constitution. The Constitution is just some words on paper if we do not do anything to those who violate it.

      The power to legislate means the power to make law. The power to make law means the power to make rules that are binding on the public and carrying the force of government behind them. This power is not supposed to be just delegated to the bureaucracy as it so often is. Congress, especially the House of Representatives, is actually the perpetrator of this. Congress does this voluntarily of its own accord in order to acquire power while escaping blame for the failures. Members of Congress like to be able to take all the credit and receive none of the blame for laws that they put in place thus assuring their massive re-election rate.

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” - Abraham Lincoln

      The Democratic controlled Congress of the day relinquished the majority it’s rightful authority right after the Watergate scandal. They abrogated their constitutional duties to become an investigative body, which they are not. We have a Department of Justice and an Attorney General for investigations. It is not Congresses duty but it is a way for one political party to continue to harass the other and create sensational headlines in the process of demonizing their opposition. The only proof needed is their attempt to impeach every Republican president since then in order to gain absolute power and create their utopia of a one-party system. In his farewell presidential speech, Washington said: “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”

 

      It is very important to have conversations with your children, with your family members, your friends, your neighbors, about the Constitution as it was written, as it was intended, especially with your children, to talk to them about what protects our liberty. Talk to them about the stories underlying our Constitution and how it came about, how it has worked well over the years, and how it has benefited us to the degree that we've followed it, and how provisions of it have been lost and need to be restored. The Constitution of the United States says that the federal government has only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution -- and that all other powers belong either to the states or to the people themselves, not to faceless bureaucrats.