Preserving The American Political Philosophy

TWEET THIS: http://goo.gl/5OHCL2 In the last election on November 4, Year 2014. Mainer's once again approved all of the bonds asked by the state. Five out of six of these bonds will be distributed through Maine State Inc channels with the DECD Corporation being one the primary channels of redistribution of taxpayer money. Recently I launched my own crowdfunding website AndersenDesign.biz  dedicated to capitalizing the mold making project which I have been wanting to accomplish for years- in fact my efforts to capitalize a mold making project for our family ceramic business involves the event that brought me face to face with the overlords of Maine's economy. This was the Juice Conference of 2009 . If I had not attended that event motivated by finding a way to capitalize the mold-making project, this blog would not exist. And so in this post I am going to contrast the governing philosophy of Maine State Inc- as it is found in the statutes that established the he

TWEET THIS: http://goo.gl/Dyh8Ql CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MAINE 2013 ARRANGEMENT Article X. Additional Provisions. Section 3.  Laws now in force continue until repealed.   All laws now in force in this State, and not repugnant to this Constitution , shall remain, and be in force, until altered or repealed by the Legislature, or shall expire by their own limitation. ( emphasis mine ) In 2013 when the Maine legislature amended the bond ratification process. the bill that was passed and signed into law by Governor LePage  it was written in such away as to do away with  ALL compliance with the constitution at the voting booth: Article IX. General Provisions. Section 14.  Authority and procedure for issuance of bonds.   ........ Whenever ratification by the electors is essential to the validity of bonds to be issued on behalf of the State, the question submitted to the electors shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth the total amount of bonds of the State

  Tweet This  http://goo.gl/mQ4e0l Administrative law is commonly defended as a new sort of power, a product of  the 19th and the 20th centuries that developed to deal with the problems of modern society in all its complexity. From this perspective, the Framers of the Constitution could not have anticipated it and the Constitution could not have barred it. What I will suggest, in contrast, is that administrative power is actually very old. It revives what used to be called prerogative or absolute power, and it is thus something that the Constitution centrally prohibited.  The History and Danger of  Administrative Law   Philip Hamburger, Columbia Law School Jonathan Gruber, an architect of Obamacare bragged about how the United States legislature passed ObamaCare , turning over a sixth of the U.S. economy to the government , Gruber admitted that the Obama administration went through "tortuous" measures to keep the facts about the legislation from the American people,

TWEET THIS http://goo.gl/VcBj8O UPDATE NOV 11 2014:  Since I wrote This post- I cam across the statute governing Bond Ratification- as amended by the 2013 legislature It looks to be that the sentence "To meet the requirement that the signed statement of the Treasurer of State accompany any ballot question for ratification of a bond issue, the statement may be printed on the ballot" was amended by adding this "or it may be printed as a separate document that is made available to voters as provided in Title 21-A, sections 605-A and 651" Section 605-A no longer exists and I am tracking it down. Section 651 says it can be posted outside the guardrail which separates voters from the rest of the world. I am writing a new post to cover this new information Update Nov 12, 2014!   The link I originally referenced is here ,  THIS IS HOW THE LAW WAS WRITTEN IN  2011 - showing the process of incrementalism at play In this link  part of the sentence below is struck out