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Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Inch by inch, the Supreme Court is clawing back constitutional governance in the USA

Inch by inch, the Supreme Court is clawing back constitutional governance in the USA: Despite all the recent talk about “our democracy,” the United States today is not a democracy. This is easy to understand. The concept of democracy says that the people governed are the government. In a large civilization, this means not a direct democracy but a representative democracy, which sees the people’s elected representatives make the laws. Today, though, most of the “laws” that govern the people do not come from their elected representatives. Instead, executive branch agencies promulgate them contrary to Article I of the US Constitution. That provides “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States…”

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