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Politics is Power.

Who has the Power?

They decide who does what to whom.

In related and the main point: when one thinks of the Constitution what do you think of?

It would seem most of us think immediately The Bill Of Rights.

Me too until a few years ago.

The Bill of Rights are Amendments.

Amendments.

What of the core governing document in Articles 1-7?

Does it matter who has the power if the Bill of Rights are upheld?

As it turns out it does matter who has power and it's not the Congress, the President and except as last court of redress the courts either - in short Articles 1-2-3 are it seems not really relevant.

Congress does not make Laws, the Federal Register and Federal Reserve are our laws and money.

So Article I gone.

The President can't hire or fire anyone in the Executive Branch except his political appointees.

Article II gone.

The Courts: in practice are notaries to power. Power, not laws.

Although the Courts in practice have become the only avenue of redress, so there's something remaining to Article II [legislative Redress] coming under the Courts of Article III.

Who has the power? Mr. Sacks may think it's corporations, some of us think they're just trying to survive the permanent government beast as best they can like the rest of us.

We lost the Constitution when we ceded money to the Federal Reserve, laws to the Bureaucracy with the Federal Register, and the Presidency when he lost the ability to fire bureaucrats to Humphrey's Executors and the Administrative Procedures Act. We didn't notice this until they began to encroach on the Bill of Rights, depending on which one is more important to you.

But as we ceded elective powers by stripping the elected of all real power- we have no power.

We lost Constitutional government first and then naturally The Bill of Rights later.

That is the New Deal until now, only now do some notice, more than before.

Not enough.

Mr. Sacks and you Ms. Weiss are a century too late, the Progressives won it all and mean to enjoy it, they mean to enjoy us. They are.

Good luck.

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