"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote:


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote:

NASA is an extra Constitutional entity, just like US DOT and they are
identical in being Congressional authority delegated to the Executive.


Do you stay up late at night making this stuff up? NASA is an agency
established by the Executive branch to "execute" under the
authorization and appropriations of enabling legislation enacted by
the Legislative branch. There's nothing "extra Constitutional" about
it.

Yes Ed, Congress delegates much of its authority to the Executive. That
way
Administrative Law can enable the spending of money which otherwise would
have to be allocated by Congress directly.

Administrative "Law" is simply the power of "regulation" rather than
"legislation" and is well within the existing Constitutional authority
of the Executive Branch. The "enabling" to spending money is more than
adequately covered by the passage of appropriation bills. That's the
whole of idea of an "Executive" branch--it executes the policy
legislated by the Congress.

Those Federal powers in the Constitution are quite limited and intentionally
so. The three branches of Government and their powers, the military, the
postal service and coining money are eacmples of Constitutional entities.
The Executive Branch is not there to implement the will of congress, but as
a co-equal Branch of governemtn.

Congressional "authority", in other words the power of the Legislative
branch as described in the Constitution cannot be "delegated" to the
Executive.

LOL

Ed, go fly an airplane and forget about trying to understand how the
system
works.

John p. Tarver, MS/PE
Electrical Engineer

John, since you brandish your MS/PE in your sig, it indicates an
educational accomplishment. Similarly, but not brandished, my
educational accomplishments include MPS (Master of Political
Science--Auburn U. 1978) and MSIR (Master of International
Relations--Troy State U. 1981). I teach Political Science in Colorado
Springs and you are welcome any time you pass through to visit the
college and audit my classes.

In that case, Ed, you certainly should be able to disearn what entities are
in the Constitution and which is not. Take for example the department of
Education, which is alternatively praised and then threatened with
disbandment. Limiting Federal powers to those entities that are
Constitutional in nature is at the heart of libertarian thought. Wheras
through republican thinking, one might come to the conclusion that Federal
power should be limited to those things the States are unable to deal with;
under a civil free society. Then there is the democratic idea that Federal
power should be unlimited and seek to satisfy the desires of the masses. I
don't see how you can convey the meaning of this experiment in democracy
without understanding the differences in the basic ideas of our Republic.

Please educate us, educated one.