The political philosopher Edmund Burke once
remarked that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good folks
to do nothing.
A glaring example of the impending triumph of a
constitutional evil that could be stopped by folks who have been largely silent
is the tyranny coming from the White House. The folks who can
stop this and are doing nothing about it are our elected representatives in Congress.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It
established the three branches of government, and it delegated “all legislative
powers” to Congress.
American law rarely uses the word “all.” Yet the Framers
chose that word precisely to confine the writing of law to Congress and to prevent a
president from altering federal law by the selective manner of law enforcement
and thereby effectively rewriting it.
The Framers sought to guard against the same evils by
compelling the president to swear at the commencement of his terms in office
that he will “faithfully” enforce the laws.
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