Constitutional Republic, Rule of Law

How Can We Undo It?

By Ron Ewart
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Row after row, shelf after shelf and volume after volume, of law, after law, after law, fill the libraries in Washington, DC and in major libraries across America. We are a country under the rule of law alright, but we have taken law and rule making to the extreme edge of absurdity, if not insanity.

The Federal Register represents 80,700 pages, as of 2008. The United States Code is perched on multiple shelves and is 16,845 pages, according to the government printing office. The United States Tax Code, Title 26, part of the United States Code, is 3,387 pages all by itself. This doesn’t even begin to cover the millions of pages of state and local laws, regulations, restrictions and ordinances, or the number of laws we add to the mix each year. But what is even worse, most of these laws, regulations and ordinances are patently without constitutional authority.

How the Hell can we undo all of that? It took 234 years to get where we are today. How long will it take to roll back this lawmaking-gone-mad insanity, to where what is left is somewhat constitutional, should somehow we gain the power to do so? How do we undo all of the court decisions (supreme, appellate and lower courts) that have created more law? The answer is decades and that is if we start today, before any more new laws are passed.

But tell that to the current President and the U. S. Congress who are poised to pass Cap and Trade legislation (1,400 pages) and a National Health Care bill that who knows how large it will be? Then there is food legislation, gun control legislation, amnesty for illegal alien legislation, the Clean Water Restoration Act legislation and God knows what other lengthy laws these dolts are promulgating in the back rooms of Congress and the White House, that will be added to all the other laws already in existence.

We have been done in by the unconscionable perversion of the very thing that was supposed to set us free ..... a Constitutional Republic, where the rights of the minority are protected from the majority (mob rule), under the “RULE OF LAWâ€