What Happened to Rule By Law?

Posted by exindigo 10 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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Can somebody explain how Der Fuhrer (Obama) can decide which parts of which laws to enforce? I thought when laws were passed, it was part of the duty of the executive branch to ensure enfacement? The executive branch doesn't get to decide, it is bound by the constitution to make sure that duly enacted laws are carried out to the letter. Under what authority does the president (Def Fuhrer) get to decide which laws to enforce and how they are enforced? Why is congress allowing this president to operate like a dictator? Obama is more like Putin than Jefferson.


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  • Posted by Rozar 10 years, 3 months ago
    For rule of law to last, the majority of the population must be educated about how the government works, what it is supposed to do, and what they can and should do to fix it.

    This will never happen. Especially in the modern world where we spend 20 to 30 years of our lives learning how to become a specialist in one field. The government "won" when it took over the schools. They controlled the facts your kids were taught, what I was taught, and for the most part wasted the beginning of our lives with useless information and rote memorization.

    The only paper that will stop the government is money. Not the Constitution or the DOI or any other piece of legislation. The majority of people can not spend their time watching the government, and even if they can they won't.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago
    Within the healthcare, law permissions were granted to the HS Sebileius(sp?) to make changes as necessary in order to make the rollout and implementation of Obamacare transition smooth as possible. Tweeking the law to make it work is one thing, tweeking for political gain is quite another. But is it truly unlawful when Congress passed the bill giving the White House administration the latitude to do what they want? This has to be figured out in court before it can be favorably argued in impeachment hearings.

    It’s going to be a long, expensive, and messy debate.

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