Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Amorphous Branch of Government

The Amorphous Branch of Government

The United States Constitution identifies three separate branches of government: Article I, establishes the Legislative Branch, Article II, establishes the Executive Branch, and finally Article III establishes the Judicial Branch. The Constitution sets forth the guidelines for each branch, in terms of what they can, and can't do. The Founding Fathers, in their wisdom wrote the Constitution in this manner to provide a system of checks and balances to insure that no one branch could dominate either of the other two. This was the intent of the Founding Fathers.
Given the aforementioned, there are problems that have evolved over the years as our country grew. The Founding Fathers could not have had the foresight or anticipated the evolution that is counter to the Founders intent. There is a fourth pseudo-branch of government that is known as the amorphous branch. This is the enormous “administrative branch” which oversees and implements the administration's policies. It is a massive bureaucracy that consists of a workforce of over 2 million employees and administers a budget of billions of dollars a year. This branch enforces rules that regulate energy, the environment, business, labor, employment, transportation, housing, agriculture, food, drugs, education, etc. You may well feel the effects, and control of this "amorphous" branch of government on a daily basis, it is slowly but surely abrogating the individual’s rights, and freedoms guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and our Bill of Rights.
As the bureaucracies continue to grow, so do the powers of the Federal Government. As you probably have figured out many of these Government entities are now headed by Czars. Sadly, if the trend does not stop, our Congress as well as the Constitution may become irrelevant, hence a Tyrant rules.

My God Bless America!

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