The Courage to Give Up Power

The Constitution grants the power to declare war only to the Congress. Before the decision was made to invade Iraq, the Congress voted to transfer their power to declare war to the president. That was wrong(1). The Constitution does not authorize Congress to transfer this power to the president. President Bush, supported by Vice-president Cheney have made it their goal to “pass on their offices in better shape than they found them”, meaning with enormously increased powers, and answerable to no one. (2)

Let’s blame this on the Republicans! Bring in a Democrat; (s)he can surely correct this, right?

Wrong. Would the Democrats be quick to give up newly created powers? Republicans and Democrats are generally two heads of the same monster, products of the same machine. See how comfortable a Democrat might become with the “unitary executive” theory once they were sitting in that throne. Power corrupts.

What politician has the strength of will to enter office and systematically dismantle that office’s powers? That sounded like an unfortunately hopeless question… until Ron Paul showed up.

Ron Paul had a novel idea: return America to the American form of government. You know, that constitutional form of government that has slowly been ignored and twisted over the last century by the very people who were so carefully sworn to protect it.

Only Ron Paul is driven by the simple, honest goal of restoring the republic. Not to run your lives, not to run the economy, not to run the world.

Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies.(3)

Ron Paul – A New Hope

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(1) http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese402.html
(2) http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/01/0081346
(3) http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/life-and-liberty/