In deference to our founders who valued brevity, here is my short summary of a Hillsdale College video I watched last night:
Session Four of this great free series focused on the contrast between our intended constitutional form of governing and our current system of bureaucratic and administrative rule.
Remember: our government, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, was designed to operate with three distinct and balanced parts known as the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
The federal agencies now operating within the executive branch have each appropriated all three of those distinct roles in the areas they control, which is why we sense that the government is no longer functioning as it should.
When a federal agency [the speaker used the example of the Federal Trade Commission] makes regulations, they are taking over legislative power. When they enforce those regulations through fines and fees, they are acting as the executive, and when citizens must appeal to the agency itself for relief, the agency has placed itself in the position of the judiciary.
These federal agencies are NOT accountable to the people, they are NOT elected by the people, and the citizens in general have NO recourse when these agencies act inappropriately.
The principles of equality and freedom are best served when the institutions of limited government, representation and separation of powers are maintained. Consider your choice and "vote skillfully" in the upcoming elections, your nation is counting on you.
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