FDR's Legacy:

Obama's 2,300 new regulations spark civil-disobedience plan
'Government is going to become increasingly irrelevant to our lives'
May 30, 2015
Greg Corombos

Just before the Memorial Day weekend, the Obama administration released 2,300 new regulations, and a new proposed water rule that has states howling mad, but a prominent Washington author and scholar is offering a blueprint to rein in the federal regulatory state through organized civil disobedience.

Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of several high-profile and controversial books, including “Losing Ground,” “The Bell Curve” and “Coming Apart.” His latest work is “By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.”

The book concludes that civil disobedience on a grand but peaceful scale is needed to shake the government off the backs of Americans because the nation’s political and legal systems and even its Constitution are insufficient to bring the government back under control.

“The system is paralyzed in ways that are not going to be fixed by electing the right Congress, by getting the right five people on the Supreme Court or by electing the right president,” Murray said.

“The regulatory state, which is my target for this, is largely beyond the reach of any of those branches of government. That’s not a wild-eyed statement. That’s pretty much matter-of-fact statement of the way the regulatory state functions.”
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While the growth of government spans over many decades, Murray said much of the unchecked power of federal regulators can be traced to a brief span in the Franklin Roosevelt administration.

“It all happened in a period of about five years, from 1937-1943, where you had half-a-dozen key Supreme Court cases which very explicitly said, ‘We are now going to adopt a new interpretation of what the text of the Constitution says, and this new interpretation unleashes the government from the strict limits that the Constitution previously put on them,’” Murray said.

He said a 1943 case changed the regulatory course of America forever.

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Hell! I won't even read an instruction pamphlet that's longer than 4 pages, anymore.

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