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Government Based on the Original United States Constitution
~ Proposed and Submitted by Johnnie Johnson
July 11, 2011
Responsibilities of the House of Representatives Grows: Our Government is so widespread now, that there are not enough members in the House to perform their constitutional responsibilities. Increasing representation in the House, will bring more oversight of our Civil Officers, which is especially needed at our time, because of the many programs affecting the people that have come in to existence through the growth of our National Government. These government programs have multiplied, while the needed constitutional oversight has not kept pace.
I take the following from W. Cleon Skousen’s book, ‘The Making of America’, pgs.508-509
to point out many of these programs.
Begin Quote; “The Founders would be amazed to learn that under the influence of a modern centralist philosophy, the President has been burdened with a host of other responsibilities never dreamed of by the Founders. Here are some of the things Congress has assigned to the President:
1.The responsibility of maintaining full employment for the work force of the entire nation.
2.The task of ensuring a high level of agricultural prosperity.
3.The task of developing a national housing program.
4. The task of supervising the exclusive distribution of atomic energy resources.
5. Underwriting hundreds of billions of dollars in private loans and private insurance programs.
6. Providing various kinds of federal relief for the victims of natural disasters throughout the country. |
7. Administering a national welfare program.
8. Administering a national Medicare and Medicaid program.
9. Administering a national social security program.
10. Allocating billions of dollars for educating the young.
11. Settling major labor union-management disputes.
12. Administering a network of health agencies.
13. Administering the environmental protection of the entire nation.
14. Administering nearly 40 percent of the nation’s land area and its resources. |
15. Administering supervisory control over the discovery and development of all major energy resources.
16. Regulating all major United States industries such as steel, automobile manufacturing, coal mining, oil production, metal mining, and so forth.
17. Supervising all radio and television broadcasting in the United States as a prerequisite to issuing licenses.
18. Monitoring the manufacturing and distribution of food and drugs and requiring special permission before any drug can be distributed.
19. Initiating various types of federal programs on a regional basis to replace many powers and activities originally reserved to the sovereign states. |
W. Cleon Skousen continues:
It is rather astonishing that none of the above additions to the President’s powers and responsibilities have been authorized by a constitutional amendment.
Furthermore, they are all outside the original intent of the Founders as set forth by Madison when he said:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined… The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”
The concentrating of all this power in the executive department was done with the best of intentions and with glowing promises. However, experience is demonstrating that this theory of “problem solving at the center” has turned out to be as counter-productive as the Founders warned it would be. Not only has it failed to fulfill its promises in the United States, but similar experiments have failed all over the world. It is what the Founders would call a “failure formula.”
There is a gradual consensus developing on all fronts that this approach has four major drawbacks.
- It is unbelievably expensive. Many things cost from double to a hundred times more when done by the federal government than they do when assigned to a competitive private contractor. The recent Grace Commission report demonstrated the destructive and destabilizing extent of the cost factor in government today.
- By its very nature, the Founders warned, government is sluggish and inefficient. There are some things it must do, but the Founders said these chores should be kept to a minimum because of the inefficiency factor.
- It places billions of dollars at the disposal of the executive department which can be (and have been) used to intimidate both the members of Congress and the states.
- It is impossible for one human being to effectively administer all of the things we have assigned to the President of the United States. End Quote.
The power that has shown up in the hands of the Federal Government should be of concern, to every American. From 1913 to the present 2011, The President’s Cabinet has more than doubled and affects every family in America. The fear of impeachment and the exercise of the purse need to be in the heart of every civil officer, and at the center of every government program. The people’s Representatives are responsible to verify that the people’s government is functioning within constitutional boundaries, in order to have the people’s purse open to them through the treasury department, and avoid impeachment.
If you want to clean up and reduce the size of our government, a restored Congress can do just that, with the House of Representatives leading out. Our nation has not had this oversight from the people for many generations now, and our out of touch and overgrown government of today, is the result of not fully implementing and exercising these constitutional controls and protections, from the House.
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