One of the major points I've tried to make so far in class is the the key to minimizing the chance that an autocratic system (rule of the one - dictatorship / tyranny) develops is to ensure that power is limited in a substantive way. This means with powerful, independent institutions.
Minimizing executive power is especially important since they have coercive power.
Yesterday's inagural address contained a variety of declarations about what Trump intends to do.
But does the U.S. Constitution grant him the power to do these things? Does he have to work with other institutions?
Let's explore.
- - Click here for the transcript.
- I will declare a national emergency at our
southern border.
- We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy.
- we will also be designating the cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations.
- invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our
government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law
enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal
networks
- defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down
costs and prices.
- We will drill, baby, drill.
- fill our strategic reserves up again,
- export American energy all over the world.
- end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle mandate,
- We will build automobiles in America
- we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
- establishing the External Revenue Service to collect all tariffs, duties and
revenues.
- establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
- sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and
bring back free speech to America.
- bring law and order back to our cities.
- end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender
into every aspect of public and private life.
- it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government
that there are only two genders, male and female.
- I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from the
military for objecting to the Covid vaccine mandate with full back pay.
- I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical
political theories and social experiments while on duty.
- changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of
America.
- restore the name of the
great President William McKinley to Mount McKinley
- gave it to Panama, and we're taking
it back.
- pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to
plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.
