What is the role of government? My candidate survey response:

Mar 21st by Linda

First semester of law school you learn that the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.”  Then you pay for a zillion classes teaching you how to circumvent the constitution.  As a freshman, I couldn’t understand Administrative Law, where you learn about all the agencies.  “The Constitution says the legislature makes laws.  Why is it that now agencies make laws?”   The answer was, “they don’t make laws, they promulgate rules.”  “Yeah, but you can go to jail over these rules, right?”  “Yeah, but…”

This is not OK.  This is not how our founding fathers intended things to be.  Presidents are not supposed to issue executive orders.  The IRS is not supposed to have a standing army.  We are supposed to be permitted to choose the water capacity of our own toilets.  We are not supposed to be FORCED to pay for fossil research in Argentina and radio advertisements telling teenagers to conserve (that’s cute, right?) energy by turning the stereo off!  Things are out of control.

We’re supposed to have a little government.  We’re supposed to be permitted to live our own lives without having to even think about the government.  That is not the case.

My favorite Jefferson quote sums up what little impact government should have on our lives:

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government.”

I’ll not elaborate about the frugality component, because “I hold these truths to be self-evident”, however our government is not wise, either.  The United States has troops in 130 countries.  We regularly intervene in international affairs and the lives of our own citizens.  We discourage
thrift, industry, enterprise, production, and self-responsibility.  We meddle, meddle, meddle.

According to the supreme law of the land, our government is illegal.  The constitutional requirements for government are very few.  They should protect us, which they don’t when our borders are wide open. They should coin money, which they don’t since 1913 and theestablishment of the Federal Reserve.  They should run the post office, which they’ve donepoorly 6 days a week, and now wish to reduce to 5.  Basically, the only thing government is supposedto do is protect our liberty.

The one thing government does well is tell us how to live.  That is the one thing government was absolutely not intended to do.  It is unconstitutional.  It is immoral.  And it is intolerable.

Tags: constitution, Gun Rights, liberty