The power to regulate vs the rule of law

The power to regulate and to tax is wisely bestowed, by the Constitution, The Rule of Law, on only those who are elected by the people: Who are thereby held accountable to the citizens that elected them. There is genius in the simplicity of this feedback loop.

However, when the power to regulate is subsumed by bureaucrats, employees of the government, we no longer have the Rule of Law. The Constitution is thereby subverted, and we are forced to endure rule by regulation, the clawing power of whim by federal, state or local government employees and subversion of our inalienable rights.

The 1984 Chevron Deference codified rule by bureaucrat, it became an ultimate tool for control of private business by bureaucracy, by the Administrative State. Now, the Justices in the Supreme Court are going to look into Chevron. Justice Gorsuch is a scholar on the topic.

The authors of the Constitution understood that government is power, nothing else. It here not selling ammunition. This letter is to explain why so many Indians are off the reservation.”

We know that Chief Jack was in Gilpin County in 1873, and later he was involved in the Meeker Massacre negotiations and the Milk Creek Indian Battle on Sept. 23, 1879. Indian Agent Meeker, on that same day, along with eight of his male employees, were killed.

Meeker’s wife, Arvilla, and daughter Josephina were taken hostage by the Utes, along with Flora Price, the wife of one of the employees killed. The hostages were held for 23 days before being released unharmed near present-day Grand Junction. (Another story)

The Milk Creek Battle raged for days, with 11 U.S. soldiers receiving the Medal of Honor, including Sgt. James Harris an African-American “Buffalo Soldier.” are out to get us…

Major Thornburgh, who led the first detachment of troops from Ft. Steele, was killed in action along with 12 soldiers and 19 Utes.

This action followed the infamous Sand Creek Massacre on Nov. 29, 1864, when Col. John Chivington led 675 troops to attack an Indian encampment mainly of women and children at Sand Creek.

The Meeker Massacre led directly to the expulsion of thousands of Ute Indians from Colorado to Utah and the opening of thousands of acres of land that had formerly been the Ute Reservation.

I don’t know what happened to “Captain Jack,” the Indian Chief. Maybe he lost his wampum in a Central City poker game?

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Reverend Martin Niemoller is a necessary power whose sole purpose should be to protect the liberty of the individual. That power must be controlled by the Rule of Law, the Constitution.

When the Rule of Law is subverted, as in Chevron, we have an all-powerful Administrative State doing the bidding of only one branch of the government, the Presidency. Chevron subverted the balance of power between Administration (President), Legislation (Congress) and Interpretation (Supreme Court.)

This unelected power, imho, is the source of the malice we citizens feel today; it is an overpowering sense of dread that something is wrong. Well, we’re not paranoid if they really

That said, we have the good fortune to live in a nation whose government is controlled by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Further, we are blessed with a Supreme Court that understands the subtle and powerful meaning of that Constitution.

Finally, we are blessed with good citizens whose only desire is to live free of tyranny, and who will stand up for their individual liberty and that of all other citizens.

Those who forged the Declaration, Constitution and Amendments foresaw these tribulations and trials and provided us with the blueprint to navigate stormy days. All we have to do is read it, understand it, and hold our government accountable to it.

“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists and didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews and didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak for me!”

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