Rex Christi ".... Madison puts it in Federalist 51, “the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others.” The Framers placed the majority of constitutional authority in the Congress, since it would be judged frequently by an informed and virtuous electorate. But today’s Congress would be unrecognizable to them. A twofold phenomenon confronts us: vertically, the Congress has usurped from the states and the people powers that the Framers never dreamed of. And yet, horizontally, Congress has virtually abdicated its legitimate powers to the Executive and Judicial branches, which are much further removed from We the People. ...."
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:25:44 +0000
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