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Checks and Balances

Checks and balances is the primary difference between a dictatorship and the complicated system of government our founding fathers came up with for this country.

Just in case you have forgotten the most important thing you learned in your high school civics class, here is a brief refresher:  Our Founding Fathers created a system of divided government, where the power at the federal government is separated among three distinct branches: the legislative (Congress), the executive (the president) and the judiciary (the Supreme Court).

That system served us well until a Marxist closet Muslim who most likely isn’t even a citizen managed to get himself elected not once, but twice.  As a matter of fact, there is already a movement under way to get him elected for a third term.   I know what you’re thinking.  “He can’t do that.  He’s limited by law to just two terms.”  Trust me, the movement to repeal that law is already in the works and if something isn’t done, it will happen.

This above mentioned Marxist has found ways to illegally circumvent our system and impose his views on this country and our elected representatives don’t seem to have the backbone to uphold and defend the constitution like they swore they would when they took the oath of office.
Some examples:

• Two days after he took office, President Obama rescinded by executive order the “Mexico City policy,” which prevents foreign aid going to organizations that perform or promote abortions.  No legislation passed, no debate, just an executive order.

• In early 2011, the Obama administration stop enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, a law duly passed by Congress and signed into law.  Here President Obama has directed his Department of Justice to ignore the Constitution and separation of powers and not enforce a law.

• In early 2012, Obama’s Health and Human Services department set forth the so-called “contraceptive mandate,” which requires all employers – including religious charities and institutions – to provide free contraception to all employees, a clear violation of the Constitution’s guarantees for freedom of conscience and freedom of religion.

• Last June, the president announced that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer deport young illegal immigrants who meet certain criteria.  These criteria were proposed by the controversial DREAM Act, which has been working its way through Congress but has not been passed into law.  Forget about whether this is a good law or a bad one; it’s about respecting the legislative process and letting these issues be debated and discussed.  No, instead the president just picked aspects of the bill he liked and ordered his administration to follow them, even if they are illegal.

• Earlier this month, as the nation endured the “fiscal cliff” crises and negotiation, the administration floated the idea of minting the trillion-dollar coin.  Why? Because the president needs Congress to raise the debt ceiling for the U.S. Treasury to borrow more to fund the government.  Rather than have to negotiate with Congress, he could have had the U.S. Mint create a coin for $1 trillion and deposit it in the treasury.  Though ultimately rejected as an idea, once again here was a plan to avoid confronting the “check” in the system – the Republican-controlled House.

This brings us to Wednesday’s announcement of 23 executive orders to be signed by the president to attempt to address gun violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy.  Once again, rather than respect the rule of law and the checks and balances in our system, President Obama is unilaterally implementing public policy without the normal process that involves legislation, debate and passage by a vote of Congress.

The Bill of Rights clearly states that our government cannot stand in the way of law-abiding citizens using their legal firearms as a means of self-protection.

My question for you is quite simple:  What do you, as a law abiding, tax paying American citizen intend to do about it?

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