11 thoughts on “The Post-Constitutional Presidency”
Jim, our constitutional scholar, certainly likes this trend. Not only can the President force us to remove the Senate and pass an equal wage law, but he (or she) can also remove our civil liberties by centralizing the police force and increasing surveillance throughout the country, using the states as mere administrative districts.
Wait, the second part won’t happen because highly centralized governments never become corrupt or self-serving.
It is a bit silly to have 50 states that have bizarre names taken from a bewildering variety of indigenous languages. I suggest we just number by order of admission as administrative districts, which would greatly streamline federal record keeping.
I live in District 15. We produce coal and timber.
Washington would be district 42. We produce software, airplanes and coffee.
And weeeed man.
Whoa, dude, yeah, like forgot about that!
Wait, the second part won’t happen because highly centralized governments never become corrupt or self-serving.
And of course, our guys will always remain in power.
Can we all go back to being territories?
You mean make de jure match de facto?
It’d be more honest right? But I had more in mind less central control more leave us alone.
Territories are creatures of the federal government with no constitutional status; Congress can create, alter and abolish them at will.
For what you have in mind we’d need to go the other way, giving the states’ constitutional status more teeth against D.C.
Like, oh I dunno, maybe a Ninth Amendment. Or even a Tenth.
“Jim, our constitutional scholar . . . ” * LOL, as the kids say.
*Not to mention our resident economist and professor of probability theory.
Jim, our constitutional scholar, certainly likes this trend. Not only can the President force us to remove the Senate and pass an equal wage law, but he (or she) can also remove our civil liberties by centralizing the police force and increasing surveillance throughout the country, using the states as mere administrative districts.
Wait, the second part won’t happen because highly centralized governments never become corrupt or self-serving.
It is a bit silly to have 50 states that have bizarre names taken from a bewildering variety of indigenous languages. I suggest we just number by order of admission as administrative districts, which would greatly streamline federal record keeping.
I live in District 15. We produce coal and timber.
Washington would be district 42. We produce software, airplanes and coffee.
And weeeed man.
Whoa, dude, yeah, like forgot about that!
Wait, the second part won’t happen because highly centralized governments never become corrupt or self-serving.
And of course, our guys will always remain in power.
Can we all go back to being territories?
You mean make de jure match de facto?
It’d be more honest right? But I had more in mind less central control more leave us alone.
Territories are creatures of the federal government with no constitutional status; Congress can create, alter and abolish them at will.
For what you have in mind we’d need to go the other way, giving the states’ constitutional status more teeth against D.C.
Like, oh I dunno, maybe a Ninth Amendment. Or even a Tenth.
“Jim, our constitutional scholar . . . ” * LOL, as the kids say.
*Not to mention our resident economist and professor of probability theory.