There is a danger in the Trump presidency . . . a nefarious danger that infected the Obama and Bush Administrations . . . a danger that all ambitious presidents have faced:
As Thomas Jefferson wrote privately to James Madison, his close confidant, “the President, tho’ an honest man himself, may be circumvented by snares and artifices, and is in fact surrounded by men who wish to clothe the Executive with more than constitutional power.” “Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 26 November 1795,” in Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1950-), 28: 540.
In most elections, it doesn’t matter who wins because the American people are always the loser when administrations become monarchial and aristocratic in their administrative style . . . a loser because the lion in the District of Columbia struts out of it cage (U.S. Constitution 1:8:17) and begins to devour the rights of the people living in the several states. Presidents seldom restrain the federal bureaucracies and limit their activities to their constitutional restraints.
Nevertheless, we hope for the best and wish for the best with this president.
Storm Brooks
Posted: 3/2/2017
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