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The Myth of Three Co-Equal Branches of Government [VIDEO]
By Jake MacAulay - February 21, 2019

In today’s delicate, thin-skinned and ultra-sensitive world where the gospel of “e******y of outcomes” is paramount, it should come as no surprise that most Americans favor the unconstitutional myth of three co-equal branches of government.

Well, unfortunately for America”

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Last month at an MSNBC Town Hall, Nancy Pelosi, a self-proclaimed Constitutional Scholar and current Speaker of the House of Representatives, stated:

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“Our Founders envisioned three co-equal branches of government. There’s little excuse for one chamber of Congress refusing to do its job and simply giving power over to the President.”

My good friend and Institute on the Constitution Chapter Leader, Gary Porter, made the following observation in his recent presentation on the topic:

“Speaker Pelosi is not alone in her confusion as to our government’s design, the ‘Three Co-Equal Branches’ myth has been drummed into millions upon millions of public school children’s heads for probably the last one-hundred years. A simple Google search finds people ranging from reporters, to sitting Congressmen, to lawyer’s groups and, of course, educational websites repeating this patent unt***h.”
So just what is it that these zealously uninformed crusaders of e******y “know for certain that just ain’t so”?

First of all, we need to consult the architects of our Republic – the Founding Fathers – to see how closely this belief conforms to the Framers’ design.

James Madison, known as the father of the Constitution, stated in Federalist Paper 51:L

“In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this inconveniency is to divide the legislature into different branches.”

By consulting with Madison, we discover that in actuality, Congress’ authority predominates, which is why we have divided the power into two branches.

By simple mathematics we see this reality to be true.

If we place the number of authorities of each Branch found in the Constitution, we see the scale disproportionate with the Legislative Branch having roughly forty-eight powers, followed by the Executive Branch with roughly twelve powers, and in last place the Judicial Branch with roughly three powers.

This, of course, correlates with the number of Federalist Papers written by our Founders. These Papers explained the functioning jobs of each of our three Constitutional branches of government. There are fifteen Papers for Congress, nine for the President, and six for the Courts.


To add further credibility to the discriminate powers of Congress, we find they have power to impeach ANY member of the other two branches!

For the Speaker of the House to be unaware of the proper balance of power is very problematic. Perhaps she ought to read Madison and get more acquainted with the document she swore before Almighty God to uphold and defend.

Better yet, the American people ought to read Madison, learn the Constitution for themselves, and avoid ignorance in office.

https://youtu.be/vQZO5qzOvKw

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working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

May as well add the President to that list, eh? With his emergency that he didn't need declare, perhaps he could use a refresher course on the primacy of Congress.

Carol Kelly

You’d rather have hordes of paid terrorists invade our border? It’s not a myth. It’s theTrojan Horse all over again. Some of us are too dumb to figure out what’s happening. We’ll all see!

vernon

The congress gave his emergency to him and this president is within he constitutional right exerciseing
his authority. Now all of sudden you guys are saying he doesn't have the right , sorry he was given that right.

vernon

woodguru

Congress giveth and taketh away?

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

The president is clearly saying that this could have been handled without the formal declaration of an emergency to enact that bit of law/p**********l power. The democratic politically driven h**ers of Trump forced his hand.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

The left hasn't yet accepted his being elected, much less that he has p**********l powers.

moldyoldy

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Myth. They say this because they underestimate how many come in each year. Part of the problem is that we classify Hispanic's as White. You'll have to think about that one.

Consider how one counts those who one doesn't know are there to count??

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

You, for one, ought to refresh your knowledge of the powers given to the President by Congress in the 1970's. It is a justified emergency to control the border when hundreds have came into this country, almost daily since the caravans have started to arrive from the Latin American States with more on the way. Their arrival stretches all phases of our schools, Justice Department, border patrol and state and city governments to keep up with this influx of i******s and those seeking asylum, coming into our country daily. Our country is already 20 trillion in debt and with these free loaders it escalates daily and could put our country at the point of no return. That is just a little food for thought.

Louie27 Loc: Peoria, AZ

It seems that you failed to read the first line of that article which stated the date of 8/o6/2014. That isn't a proper count as of today. But it seems that progressives jump to conclusions before they think.

moldyoldy

The numbers are still down.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Sorry...I thought it was bahmer who posted on the primacy of Congress.

bahmer

Nope I just posted the article for discussion is all.