The following excerpt was written by Sen. Rick Santorum and originally published on Newsmax.
I had the pleasure of working with many honest, patriotic colleagues during my 16 years serving the people of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Congress. They want what’s best for their country, and some of them are still serving in our nation’s highest offices.
Unfortunately, the cards are stacked against them.
Washington is broken, and until underlying issues are fixed, all the good people in the world won’t heal what ails our country’s system of governance.
COVID-19 vaccine mandates, irresponsible spending, and an overreaching bureaucracy are all symptoms of the same disease.
We don’t have a people problem in Washington. Yes, we’ve sent some real radicals to D.C. in recent years, and yes, those politicians push for policies that make our country worse, not better. But those individuals are simply exploiting a broken system that must be restored.
When the Framers wrote the Constitution in 1787, they structured our founding document to create obstacles to an all-powerful federal government, which they saw as a threat to freedom. First, they specifically enumerated federal powers and included the 10th Amendment to reserve all remaining power to the states or to the people.
They instituted a system of checks and balances by dividing federal power into the three branches of the federal government. The Founding Fathers predicted that the branches would likely seek to expand power beyond what was proscribed, but that each would vigorously fight against this encroachment from the other branches.
For example, they gave the House and Senate the most power and then at once constrained that power by charging state legislatures with electing U.S. senators. This put a direct check on any attempt by Washington to take power from the states or the people.
Finally, they made it difficult for the Constitution to be amended to take power from the states by requiring three quarters of the state legislatures to ratify any change.
Over the last 100 years, this competitive structure has broken down — and the American people have suffered under an increasingly powerful federal government controlled by an increasingly powerful president.
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