The United States was born when rebellious colonists declared their independence from an imperial ruler who had vastly overstepped his bounds. “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States,” they wrote in their Declaration of Independence.
Today’s presidency lacks the regal air of George III. But imperialism is back, in a big way.
Last week, the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security issued a memorandum instructing U.S. immigration officials to use their “prosecutorial discretion” to create a policy scheme contrary to existing law, designed to implement legislation that Congress hasn’t passed.
The President himself has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to do this. “The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how our system works,” he told Hispanic activists last year. “That’s not how our democracy functions.”
Indeed.
We can now see before us a persistent pattern of disregard for the powers of the legislative branch in favor of administrative decision-making without—and often in spite of—congressional action. This violates the spirit—and potentially the letter—of the Constitution’s separation of the legislative and executive powers of Congress and the President.
Read More at heritage.org. By Matthew Spalding.
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people let this puss bag get away with all this so enjoy your "republic" while you can. congress does nothing, the senate does even less,unless it is further their agenda of making everyone in america their slave
OBAMA'S CHANGE — TO BE 1ST KING AND RULER OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD — THAT WORM – LYING – MONEY GRABBING WALL STREET WHITE MAN'S SHOE SHINE BOY KISSING THERE FEET FOR THIER GIFTS TO HIM TO STAY WEALTHY – OBAMA'S A RETARDED SCUM.
Bress you said it and that book The Amatuer says it all.We know President obunghole wants to be King Obunghole.
If he wants to be a “king” of somewhere, he needs to go to africa, and find a little village there to run into the ground. The natives would probably run him into the ground first, and that’s probably why he hasn’t tried it yet. God save us from this foolish bungler in office. foolish and arrogant. And evil. uglier than the reared of a very ugly pig.