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Friday, January 16, 2015
Obeying God rather than men
The federal government has become too big and too powerful bringing into jeopardy the freedoms of every man, woman, and child in the United States. While this statement is nothing new to informed conservatives trying to fight the good fight against the revocation of inalienable rights, it is good to spend a bit of time on why this is happening. It begs the question of how government agencies act with force beyond what the law provides. The answer is found in what is called Administrative Law–the body of law that governs the activities of agencies that establish regulations and rules to govern. In essence, these agencies assume the authority to legislate without Congress. This is a threat to your very existence.
We often wonder how things get so out of hand–how your religious free speech, for example, can be curbed by agencies who will not allow the presentation of the Ten Commandments, or a business making its own determination whether to do business with people it doesn’t want to do business with. Or how about the IRS or the DEA having the authority to confiscate your property, seize your bank accounts, essentially prevent you from the Constitutional right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without due process? Another would be the legal assumption that you have no right to privacy while driving on public roads. All these things are a result of unconstitutional agencies taking legislative license.
In September, Columbia Law School’s Philip Hamburger wrote an article entitled, “The History and Danger of Administrative Law.” He says, “That danger is absolutism: extra-legal, supra-legal, and consolidated power…The Constitution carefully barred this threat…we should no longer settle for some vague notion of “rule of law,” understood as something that allows the delegation of legislative and judicial powers to administrative agencies. We should demand rule through law and rule under law. Even more fundamentally, we need to reclaim the vocabulary of law: Rather than speak of administrative law, we should speak of administrative power-indeed, of absolute power or more concretely of extra-legal, supra-legal, and consolidated power. Then we at least can begin to recognize the danger.”
This administration has taken administrative law to levels never seen before–unilaterally determining regulations on socialist healthcare; government control of the internet; spying on Americans; practicing soft tyranny with impunity. It’s as if this government is daring anyone to stand up to its unbiblical and often evil intent, just so it has the opportunity to show its absolute power. This, if left unchecked, will eventually lead to citizens such as you and me being faced with moral choices to follow our faith and be heavily persecuted for it, or to bow down to this socialist/communist version of a replacement for God. As Peter and the Apostles said in Acts 5:29, “We ought to obey God rather than men.” I know what me and my house will do.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries thanks Bill Wilson and www.dailyjot.com