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Law enforcement by the executive branch

Under the Constitution, the executive branch is supposed to enforce the law, but is it is supposed to enforce the law as set forth by the legislature which has the responsibility for actually enacting the law. When that begins to be short-circuited there is a real vulnerability towards arbitrary actions by the government.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 24, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories ConstitutionTags Tim Newton

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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