Unconstitutional Monarchy | National Review Online: "When legislatures pass laws but the head of state decides which ones he’ll implement and which he won’t, that is a monarchy – and not a constitutional but an absolute one. When the English were as mad with James II as the Americans later were with George III, they spelled it out in the first charge of the 1689 Bill of Rights:Post title stolen from Rush's "Farewell To Kings" which clearly not enough people paid attention to...
Whereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;President Obama has developed a habit of “dispensing with and suspending” all manner of laws from health care to immigration. If he gets to choose which laws he’ll enforce, do we get to choose which laws we follow?"
By assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament;
"Cities full of hatred, fear and lies; Withered hearts and cruel tormented eyes..."
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