LETTER: Do presidents all want to be king?

Every president since the assassination of John F. Kennedy has tried to become king, each one gaining a little more power. If people would read the Constitution, Articles One and Two, they would find some interesting facts:

Article 1: All legislative authority is given to the Congress and the ability to call the military to actual duty. The 17th Amendment destroyed the Congress, by allowing the people to vote for both houses; the states are no longer represented in Congress. The House of Representatives was called the people’s house, the Senate was the states’ house.

Article 2: The president has very little power. He has the power to veto bills coming out of Congress, he has the power to appoint judges, if approved by the Senate. He has the power to make treaties, if approved by Congress. Otherwise he has very little power.

I keep on saying the president is not the commander-in-chief until the military is called to actual duty. Read Article 1 of the Constitution: Only Congress can call the military to actual duty.

Article 2 of the Constitution: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and all the Militia of the several States, when they are called to ACTUAL SERVICE of the United States.

Read Federalist Paper 69, by Hamilton: The President will have only the occasional command of such part of the militia of the nation as by legislative provision may be called into the actual service of the Union

Article 3: The Supreme Court, has even less power, it is not allowed to write laws; it’s only power is to check to see if laws passed by Congress are constitutional. They also have the power to stop fights between the states .

If this country is to survive, we must force our elected officials to uphold the OATH to the Constitution, both Democrats and Republicans. We must rebuild the family, meaning husband, wife, and children. We must put men back to work and mothers rearing their children.

If we repealed the 14th, 16th, 17th, 19th and the 26th amendments, it would go a long way in restoring our country.

A democracy will always fail, because when the people find out they can vote for largess from the public treasury, they will vote for politicians that will give money from the public treasury, hence the welfare state. —Fred Hammel, Kalispell