Power corrupts.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of tyranny: a dictatorship disguised as democracy.
When one party dominates all three branches of government—the
executive, the legislative, and the judicial—there is even more reason
to worry.
There’s no point debating which political party would be more dangerous with these powers.
This is true no matter which party is in power.
This is particularly true in the wake of the 2024 election.
Already, Donald Trump, who promised to be a dictator on “day one,” is advancing plans to further undermine the nation’s already vulnerable system of checks and balances.
To be fair, this is not a state of affairs that can be blamed exclusively on Trump.
America’s founders intended our system of checks and balances to serve as a bulwark against centralized power being abused.
As constitutional scholar Linda Monk explains,
“Within the separation of powers, each of the three branches of
government has ‘checks and balances’ over the other two. For instance,
Congress makes the laws, but the President can veto them, and the
Supreme Court can declare them unconstitutional. The President enforces
the law, but Congress must approve executive appointments and the
Supreme Court rules whether executive action is constitutional. The
Supreme Court can strike down actions by both the legislative and
executive branches, but the President nominates Supreme Court justices,
and the Senate confirms or denies their nominations.”
Unfortunately, our system of checks and balances has been strained to
the breaking point for years now, helped along by those across the
political spectrum who, in marching in lockstep with the Deep State,
have conspired to advance the government’s agenda at the expense of the
citizenry’s constitutional rights.
By “government,” I’m not referring to the farce that is the highly
partisan, two-party, bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats.
Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched
Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist
movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
This is exactly the kind of concentrated, absolute power the founders
attempted to guard against by establishing a system of checks of
balances that separate and shares power between three co-equal branches.
Yet as law professor William P. Marshall
concludes, “The system of checks and balances that the Framers
envisioned now lacks effective checks and is no longer in balance. The
implications of this are serious. The Framers designed a system of
separation of powers to combat government excess and abuse and to curb
incompetence. They also believed that, in the absence of an effective
separation-of-powers structure, such ills would inevitably follow.
Unfortunately, however, power once taken is not easily surrendered.”
The outcome of the 2024 elections is not a revolutionary bid to
recalibrate a government run amok. Rather, this is a Deep State coup to
stay in power, and Donald Trump is the vehicle by which it will do so.
Watch and see.
Remember, it was the Trump Administration that asked Congress to allow it to suspend parts of the Constitution whenever it deemed it necessary during the COVID-19 pandemic and “other” emergencies....<<<Read More>>>...
