Another Essay

                The greatest, the single most important challenge my generation faces is reclaiming a constitutional base for our government. Without the Constitution, we have a government with boundless power and influence. This limit has been slowly bypassed over the past several decades, to the point at which the general opinion is that Congress should pass whatever laws it wants, and let the Supreme Court decide if they should have or not. Just from a practical standpoint, the fact is, the Supreme Court takes so few cases a year, it cannot handle the load that this philosophy places on it. From a moral standpoint, it is flat wrong. Our nation's lawmakers cannot ethically pass any law they want, when they are sworn to protect the Constitution. In addition, they have delegated matters that they should oversee to the executive branch with such agencies as the EPA, FCC, and DEA. These agencies make their own policy, and are not held accountable by anyone. The reason Congress is supposed to oversee these issues is because Congress is directly accountable to the public. Also, the president should not allow these agencies to come under his jurisdiction. The president is supposed to enforce the laws of the country, not the rules of unelected bureaucracies. The Constitution has been slowly eroded until it is nothing but a nicety, or a vague and misapplied excuse for a federal overreach. When language like, "We'll just have to pass it to see what's in it" is condoned by the people with regard to massive bills, it is obvious something needs to change. Without a Constitution in effect, there is tyranny.