Senator Ted Cruz demonstrated the timeless wisdom of the ancient Roman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, by reciting Cicero’s first oration against Catiline, with a few substitutions of names and terms such as “Obama” for “Catiline.”
Perhaps it is too late to save the Republic, as Cicero perhaps realized in his last moments, and we will be left with this:
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Obama the Usurper
To summarize a complex history and show the seriousness of his seizure of the Legislatures powers.
The structure of America’s government is a response to an over powerful monarch exercising direct, dictatorial rule. To review our political history, we can recall that democracy came out of the long struggle between Parliament and the Crown. The English Civil War1642-1651 resulted from this conflict. In the end the Stuart kings lost the war and their bid for direct dictatorial rule by divine right was defeated. When Parliament invited William III to become King in 1688 they required him to sign a Bill of Rights
“An Act declareing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setleing the Succession of the Crowne.”
Among the many offenses that this document listed against the former King was the usurpation of the legislative power of Parliament by:
“By Assumeing and Exerciseing a Power of Dispensing with and Suspending of Lawes and the Execution of Lawes without Consent of Parlyament.”
To prevent this abuse in future Parliament required the Crown to agree:
“That the pretended Power of Suspending of Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regall Authority without Consent of Parlyament is illegall.”
The American Revolution occurred because the Rights of Englishman laid out in the Bill of Rights only applied to England. In the American Colonies the King continued direct dictatorial rule. So we see the same offense listed in the Declaration of Independence.
“For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:”
“For suspending our own Legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”
Obama by his actions has usurped the power of the Legislature both Congress and the Senate. He has seized dictatorial power by his Kingly claim that the laws and their enforcement are subject to his will alone.
This creates a fatal breach in the separation of Powers and the whole balanced structure of American Government. America must now decide if it is to be a Constitutional Republic or a Monarchy in all but name with a dictatorial President.