Ted Nugent: Obama Did Not Sneak Into Power

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The downward spiral into socialism is nobody's fault but our own. A silver-tongued politician that reads a teleprompter fairly well made a bunch of general promises without articulating the details of his madness, and the people flocked to the ballot box to vote for him.

And if we can get ourselves into this mess, we can get ourselves out of it.

The climb out of the radical agenda being instituted by the Left may take decades to change, but if we remain vigilant, it can be done. Not to do what it takes to correct the insanity would be catastrophic.

The key is to return to the U.S. Constitution, for its wisdom of the ages would have avoided this mess had we been following it. The Constitution teaches principles, values, family, capitalism, the importance of gun ownership, and limiting principles designed to protect us from a tyrannical government.

Separation of Powers. There is supposed to be a separation of powers between the three branches of government, yet the Democrats have the Executive Branch encroaching on the other two branches, and the Judicial Branch making law even though Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution expressly establishes that all legislative powers are granted only to the Legislative Branch.

This President has been working to destroy the private sector, downsize our military, compromise our exceptional nation status, and has even gone so far as to sue the State of Arizona for enforcing the law.

The Separation of Powers goes farther than just between the three branches of the federal government. There is also a separation of powers between the Federal Government and the States. The Feds are given only a few authorities by the U.S. Constitution. Their powers are supposed to be limited to only those things. Then, as clarified by the Tenth Amendment, any power not granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, belongs to the States.

Let's consider the lawsuit against Arizona for a moment. No place in the Constitution is the federal government given the authority to enforce immigration law. Article I, Section 9 provides the authority to pass legislation to prohibit migration to the U.S. Congress, but enforcement is not provided in its text. Therefore, in line with the Tenth Amendment, enforcement of immigration law falls upon the states. So, not only is Arizona acting Constitutionally, but it is actually their constitutional responsibility to enforce immigration law.

The Founding Fathers also placed in the U.S. Constitution a separation of voting powers. Originally, the State Legislatures appointed the U.S. Senators, and appointed the Electors for electing the President of the United States. This was done for a few reasons, but I wish to focus on two of them.

First, this gave the States a voice. When it came to the Senators being appointed by the States, it made it so any new bill had to be approved by the People (House of Representatives), the States (U.S. Senate), and the federal government (President). Now, the States have been cut out of the loop.

Second, the Founding Fathers knew that if the people voted for President, and both houses of the U.S. Congress, a real danger would exist. If a tyranny came along that could fool the people, it would be fairly easy for the tyrannical ideology to gain control of those parts of government (such as what recently happened in 2006, 2008).

The people began voting for the electors for President in 1824. The 17th Amendment took the States' voice out of Congress when it handed the vote of Senators to the People in 1913. Had we been following the U.S. Constitution in the first place, and those aspects of the voting powers had not been changed, I doubt the Obamanation would have control of the White House.

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