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Excerpts from "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise"
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That agency’s bureaucrats—not just unelected but seemingly un-fireable—then leap at the chance to fill the vacuum created by Congress’s preening cowardice. The federal government is growing larger and less constitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.
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August 3, 2024 at 12:21 AM
That agency’s bureaucrats—not just unelected but seemingly un-fireable—then leap at the chance to fill the vacuum created by Congress’s preening cowardice. The federal government is growing larger and less constitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.
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Given the choice between being powerful but vulnerable or irrelevant but famous, most Members of Congress have chosen the latter.
Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency.
Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency.
August 3, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Given the choice between being powerful but vulnerable or irrelevant but famous, most Members of Congress have chosen the latter.
Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency.
Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency.
In recent decades, members of the House and Senate discovered that if they give away that power to the Article II branch of government, they can also deny responsibility for its actions. So today in Washington, most policy is no longer set by Congress at all, but by the Administrative State.
August 3, 2024 at 12:20 AM
In recent decades, members of the House and Senate discovered that if they give away that power to the Article II branch of government, they can also deny responsibility for its actions. So today in Washington, most policy is no longer set by Congress at all, but by the Administrative State.
Under our Constitution, the legislative branch—Congress—is far and away the most powerful and, correspondingly, the most accountable to the people.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Under our Constitution, the legislative branch—Congress—is far and away the most powerful and, correspondingly, the most accountable to the people.
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This exclusive authority was part of the Framers’ doctrine of “separated powers.” They not only split the federal government’s legislative, executive, and judicial powers into different branches. They also gave each branch checks over the others.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:23 PM
This exclusive authority was part of the Framers’ doctrine of “separated powers.” They not only split the federal government’s legislative, executive, and judicial powers into different branches. They also gave each branch checks over the others.
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Under Article I of the Constitution, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” That is, federal law is enacted only by elected legislators in both houses of Congress.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Under Article I of the Constitution, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” That is, federal law is enacted only by elected legislators in both houses of Congress.
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The term Administrative State refers to the policymaking work done by the bureaucracies of all the federal government’s departments, agencies, and millions of employees.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The term Administrative State refers to the policymaking work done by the bureaucracies of all the federal government’s departments, agencies, and millions of employees.
(p. 7)
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And despite its gaudy price tag, the federal budget is not even close to the worst example of this corruption. That distinction belongs to the “Administrative State,” the dismantling of which must a top priority for the next conservative President.
(p. 7)
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July 13, 2024 at 10:21 PM
And despite its gaudy price tag, the federal budget is not even close to the worst example of this corruption. That distinction belongs to the “Administrative State,” the dismantling of which must a top priority for the next conservative President.
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(p. 7)
Consider the federal budget. Under current law, Congress is required to pass a budget—and 12 issue-specific spending bills comporting with it—every single year. The last time Congress did so was in 1996. Congress no longer meaningfully budgets, authorizes, or categorizes spending.
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July 13, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Consider the federal budget. Under current law, Congress is required to pass a budget—and 12 issue-specific spending bills comporting with it—every single year. The last time Congress did so was in 1996. Congress no longer meaningfully budgets, authorizes, or categorizes spending.
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In the case of making the federal government smaller, more effective, and accountable, the simple answer is the Constitution itself.
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July 12, 2024 at 3:16 AM
In the case of making the federal government smaller, more effective, and accountable, the simple answer is the Constitution itself.
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Conservatives desire a smaller government not for its own sake, but for the sake of human flourishing. But the Washington Establishment doesn’t want a constitutionally limited government because it means they lose power and are held more accountable by the people who put them in power.
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July 12, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Conservatives desire a smaller government not for its own sake, but for the sake of human flourishing. But the Washington Establishment doesn’t want a constitutionally limited government because it means they lose power and are held more accountable by the people who put them in power.
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PROMISE #2: DISMANTLE THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND RETURN SELF-GOVERNANCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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July 12, 2024 at 3:14 AM
PROMISE #2: DISMANTLE THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND RETURN SELF-GOVERNANCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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In summary, the next President has a moral responsibility to lead the nation in restoring a culture of life in America again.
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July 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
In summary, the next President has a moral responsibility to lead the nation in restoring a culture of life in America again.
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Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother.
July 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Conservatives should ardently pursue these pro-life and pro-family policies while recognizing the many women who find themselves in immensely difficult and often tragic situations and the heroism of every choice to become a mother.
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But the #Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America.
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But the #Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America.
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July 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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But the #Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America.
(p. 6)
But the #Dobbs decision is just the beginning. Conservatives in the states and in Washington, including in the next conservative Administration, should push as hard as possible to protect the unborn in every jurisdiction in America.
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Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
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Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
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July 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
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Finally, conservatives should gratefully celebrate the greatest pro-family win in a generation: overturning Roe v. Wade, a decision that for five decades made a mockery of our Constitution and facilitated the deaths of tens of millions of unborn children.
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But the pro-family promises expressed in this book, and central to the next conservative President’s agenda, must go much further than the traditional, narrow definition of “family issues.” Every threat to family stability must be confronted.
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July 11, 2024 at 3:56 PM
But the pro-family promises expressed in this book, and central to the next conservative President’s agenda, must go much further than the traditional, narrow definition of “family issues.” Every threat to family stability must be confronted.
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Allowing parents or physicians to “reassign” the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Allowing parents or physicians to “reassign” the sex of a minor is child abuse and must end.
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The noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:39 AM
The noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country.
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The noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:37 AM
The noxious tenets of “critical race theory” and “gender ideology” should be excised from curricula in every public school in the country.
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But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents’ rights as their children’s primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:35 AM
But even before we achieve that long-term goal, parents’ rights as their children’s primary educators should be non-negotiable in American schools. States, cities and counties, school boards, union bosses, principals, and teachers who disagree should be immediately cut off from federal funds.
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In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children’s education is asimple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice—a goal all conservatives and conservative Presidents must pursue.
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July 11, 2024 at 12:32 AM
In our schools, the question of parental authority over their children’s education is asimple one: Schools serve parents, not the other way around. That is, of course, the best argument for universal school choice—a goal all conservatives and conservative Presidents must pursue.
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Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
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July 10, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
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Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
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July 10, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime.
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Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance.... has no claim to First Amendment protection.
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July 10, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance.... has no claim to First Amendment protection.
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