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The Constitution of the United States had as its primary goal the protection of the people from the power of an existing government. The Founding Fathers intended to keep any single governing body from abusing the people by creating a separation of powers and keeping these separated powers in a state of perpetual and permanent  antagonism. Church and state are kept separate with the intent of keeping either of them or the combination of them from oppressing the common people. The power of the state is fragmented into executive, legislative and judiciary to prevent any of them from abusing the people. The direct exercise of executive power is fragmented into federal, state, county, city each of which is intended to maintain its own portion of power by a jealous conflict with each of the other powers. The whole point of this separation of powers is to protect the people as groups and individuals by providing them with several opportunities for redress from grievance created by any one of those individual governmental powers. Even the military was broken up into various branches so that no single unit could by some swift action gain control and abuse the people.

Unfortunately the goals of the Constitution have been subverted. The two people in the world today who know the intent of the Constitution better than any others have managed to gain the two top posts in the United States. In the short term the most powerful person in the world today is the President of the United States; he is today’s executive bulldog. The watchdog, intended by the Constitution to constrain the bulldog, is the Supreme Court, but that is controlled by the Chief Justice, who at this time is not the jealous competitor for power but the bulldog’s close companion. Thus the power of the United States government is concentrated into two most powerful people in the world, and these two are not in perpetual jealous conflict with one another but are bosom buddies. That is the grave danger to every person under their influence, which is every living person, because there is no possible redress of grievance and from the power presently held in common by those two people. Their potential for creating grievance is nearly infinite.

I believe that both of those men have high moral standards and a keen desire to maintain a healthy United States within a healthy world, but my contention is that they are in a position to abuse their enormous powers and there wouldn’t even be a potential for redress of grievance by any individual or even other governmental organizations. They presently know their powers and their limitations and they also know they can do as they please with little chance of corrective punishments being inflicted. If there is no anticipated censure, there is no reason not to abuse their power. The Supreme Court has the power to constrain abuse of power but five of the nine members are from the same watchdog kennel, The Harvard Law School, and are led by Roberts, one of their own from that same elite group. There are 200 approved law schools in the US, but one law school has five of the nine Supreme Court seats. Thus there is little chance of the jealous conflict intended by the Constitution and little chance of restraining abuse of power. That is unquestionably an over-concentration of political power which the Constitution was designed to prevent. But what compounds this potential abuse of power is that our President also comes from that same tiny sliver of American society, Harvard Law School. That is even compounded because both the Chief Justice and the President come from a fragment of that fragment, the Constitutional Law sub-section of The Harvard Law School. How strange it is that the most informed people on the planet of the intent of the Constitution are the very ones who are violating the most cherished principle of democracy, the separation of powers.

A primary plank of the coming Presidential election should be to make certain that the next president does not come from this overly select group. The secondary plank should be the election of the Supreme Court by a general election as is the President, but on the alternate election years.

Prevent governmental abuse! Vote for separation of Judicial and Executive Power.