Letter: Government moving closer to tyranny

With the resignation of John Boehner, Speaker of the House, I think it would be educational to review our political spectrum and how our nation is trying to strike a balance between total government control on the Left and no government control on the Right. Democrats want more and Republicans want less government control over our lives and rights.

Paraphrasing James Madison, 4th U.S. President: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, no controls on government would be necessary.

Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 51, wrote in defense of our Constitution that would establish a structure of “checks and balances between the different departments” of the government and, as a result, constrain tyrannical government's oppression of the public.

With a lack of angels available to run for public office, our Constitution was designed to find that balancing point between tyranny and anarchy. Lately, with President Obama's attempt to bypass the U.S. Senate over the Iran atomic bomb treaty, we are moving closer to tyranny.

Let's pray that the next Speaker of the House of Representatives will support the Senate in enforcing the Constitution’s foreign treaty controls (Article II Section 2).

Kennewick

This story was originally published October 6, 2015 at 5:36 PM with the headline "Letter: Government moving closer to tyranny."