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Executive Order 11921: Allows FEMA to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in US financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. FEMA has broad powers in every aspect of the nation.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I have two problems for the first executive to try enforcing one of those orders outside of DIRE emergency that even the public can see and agree on.
1). The American Public
2). The American Courts
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If one of the heads of departments commits any illegal act, under colour of his office, it cannot be pretended that his office alone exempts him from being sued in the ordinary mode of proceeding, and being compelled to obey the judgment of the law.
The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognise certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act repugnant to the constitution is void.
It is also not entirely unworthy of observation, that in declaring what shall be the supreme law of the land, the constitution itself is first mentioned; and not the laws of the United States generally, but those only which shall be made in pursuance of the constitution, have that rank.
Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
We are asked to decide whether the President was acting within his constitutional power when he issued an order directing the Secretary of Commerce to take possession of and operate most of the Nation's steel mills.
It is clear that, if the President had authority to issue the order he did, it must be found in some provision of the Constitution. And it is not claimed that express constitutional language grants this power to the President. In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker.
The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad. And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal about who shall make laws which the President is to execute. The first section of the first article says that "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. . . ." After granting powers to the Congress, Article I goes on to provide that
Congress may make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
The President's order does not direct that a congressional policy be executed in a manner prescribed by Congress -- it directs that a presidential policy be executed in a manner prescribed by the President. The Constitution does not subject this lawmaking power of Congress to presidential or military supervision or control. The Founders of this Nation entrusted the lawmaking power to the Congress alone in both good and bad times. The judgment of the District Court is...Affirmed.
Originally posted by CitizenNum287119327
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I have two problems for the first executive to try enforcing one of those orders outside of DIRE emergency that even the public can see and agree on.
1). The American Public
2). The American Courts
...
The voting majority of the people are mind-controlled fools.
The govt picks the Supreme Court, and the justice system is just as corrupt as the senate
Originally posted by TupacShakur
We're just one more false-flag attack away from total tyranny.....when they start implementing hardcore gun control, that's when you know we're in trouble.edit on 1-12-2011 by TupacShakur because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by calnorak
www.archives.gov...
Hate to burst your bubble, but all the ones I looked at were revoked.