Here’s something for you to mull over for the weekend. The Demise of Representative Government from Henry Lamb posits this question.

Few people saw it coming. Many are still oblivious. But it is here, and growing: administrative government. What made America great was the creation of a government designed to exercise only the power granted to it by the people who are governed. The Declaration of Independence says it quite clearly: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….”

This means that elected representatives make the laws and levy taxes to hire the administrators who administer the laws.

snip…..Administrative government essentially replaced representative government with the creation of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, which, incidentally, consisted of appointed professionals. The PCSD declared that:

“We need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions; more rapid change; and more sensible use of human, natural, and financial resources in achieving our goals.”

This statement displays contempt for the “decision process” of elected representatives, and is only one of 16 declarations that indicate the extent to which the appointed PCSD believed that a professional, appointed government should engineer society.

The PCSD functioned from 1993 to 1999, and it permeated every federal agency. Consequently, its influence permeated state and local government, enforced through what is euphemistically called “economic incentives and disincentives.” This means - in street language - “you do what we say, or you get no federal dollars.”

snip….This same shift away from the consent of the governed is now infecting our Congress. The executive (administrative) branch, has created “working groups” consisting of appointed administrators from Mexico, Canada, and the United States, which work daily to “harmonize” or “integrate” the administrative rules which govern the societies of the three nations. Congress is not needed, nor wanted. Representative government is no longer essential; it is now the administrative government that engineers society by enforcing rules and regulations that carry the weight of law.

NAFTA and CAFTA are major trade policies that were devised by appointed professionals, and approved by a Congress that was either converted, or intimidated. In either case, the result is the same. Through the administratively created Security and Prosperity Partnership, the appointed professional bureaucrats are devising and enforcing public policy that is transforming the nation from a representative government, to an administrative government.

Can you say amero? How about North American Union?

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