The End of The Constitution

News Note: States already have begun fighting back, and one state, Missouri, is looking at a plan that would simply cancel any “act, order, law, statute, rule, or regulation of the federal government upon a personal firearm” and make any federal agency trying to enforce such limits guilty of a Class D felony. Read More

An Oregon sheriff says he will not enforce any federal regulation that President Barack Obama lays out in his package of gun control proposals Wednesday.

Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller joins several other public officials across the nation who have decided to square off with the White House even before it outlines what its plans are for expanded measures.

Mueller sent a letter to Vice President Joe Biden this week saying he won't enforce any federal regulation "offending the constitutional rights of my citizens." He won't permit federal officers to come to his county to enforce such laws either, he said.

The Founding Fathers were heavily influenced by French philosopher Charles Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu when drafting the Constitution, most notably in connection with the separation of powers.
Born on January 18, 1689, in Bordeaux, France, Montesquieu was trained in the classics as well as the law.  In 1722 he began his literary career when he published The Persian Letters, a famous, insightful satire of Parisian and French society.  Although he published other works as well, his most influential volume was The Spirit of the Laws (1748).

The Founding Fathers, most especially James Madison, drew upon Montesquieu’s theory of the separation of powers when drafting the Constitution.  Montesquieu argued that the best way to secure liberty and prevent a government from becoming corrupted was to divide the powers of government among different actors who would check each other.  For example, Montesquieu warned that “Were the executive power not to have a right of restraining the encroachments of the legislative body, the latter would become despotic; for as it might arrogate to itself what authority it pleased, it would soon destroy all the other powers.”

Madison and the Founding Fathers took heed of Montesquieu’s warning by establishing an independent executive (the President), legislative (the Congress), and judiciary (the Supreme Court) in the federal Constitution.  Madison masterfully protected the separation of powers by establishing a thorough system of checks and balances as well.

Obama has consistently bypassed the separation of powers by legislating and ruling from the executive branch of government. Cap&Trade did not pass a Democrat Senate and House. Obama's 23 Thesis (Executive Orders) has nothing to do with reducing violence. It is a 23 step plan to reinvent government, as Luther reinvent the Catholic religion. Luther did not throw out the Bible; Obama threw out the Constitution.

Obama has consistently been against gun ownership by citizens, even as a state senator where he voted "present" on crime legislation. Obama said crime laws disproportionally effect a certain minority.