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It would be amusing to quiz those adipose functionaries at superfluous government agencies like the Department of Education about Madison’s teaching. What steps have you taken, a patient pedagogue might ask, to assure that your department, invested with the awesome power of the state, protects and preserves the freedoms of U.S. citizens? What “auxiliary precautions” have you mobilized to assure that your bit of the government “controls itself”?
These are questions I would also like to have put to Christopher Wray, director of our Stasi, and Merrick Garland, Obergruppenführer of the entity formerly known as the Department of Justice. Perhaps a picture book version of Madison’s thoughts could be prepared for His Vacancy In Chief, Joe Biden. It would be fascinating to hear what they had to say.
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Yes, as he concludes with calling Merrick Garland (very accurately) our “Obergruppenfuhrer”, it’s obvious that Madisons intended system of checks and balances didn’t pan out too well.
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