| Show I Government nellL by La Law Lawor Law Law- or by Edict By fly HA RAYMOND FAYMOND Yi PITCAIRN National Sentinels of 0 the Republic Dominant among the demands of ot otmen men who fought the Revolution was the right to a voice in the making of laws under which they were governed By their victory our fathers won that right Jealously they guarded it it-in it in both Federal a and State con con- Under the system thus established the enactment of law was reserved to men chosen by the people and responsive to their will It is the traditional American system m. m But there is another type of leg leg- known as Administrative I Law It Is a system of edicts ar and ard decrees handed down by rulers to subject populations In its enactment enactment enact enact- ment the people have no voice volee That's one reason why so many thoughtful citizens are protesting against the flood of ot edicts pouring out of ot the thc offices of various boards and bureaus bureaus- at Washington today They Thc realize that a whole new v I body of Administrative Law Is being forced on the p not by their elected representatives but by appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed chiefs of bureaus and commissions commissions com com- missions in whose selection the voters had no choice and over whose I actions they exercise no control In recent years those citizens have observed a constantly increasing number of examples of extravagance gance arrogance and interference with individual rights on the part pait of ot Bureaucrats who assumed or to whom Congress ss delegated powers vested only i in the people eople or their then elected representatives Today they see the growing gro threat of ot Administrative Law supplanting unless checked our entire American system of legislation legislation and and with it our form of govern govern- ment Bureaucracy and democracy cannot cannot cannot can can- not continue to exist side I by y side sWe One or the other must yield Whether or not we se e shall shah surrender government government govern govern- ment by the tue people for tor government go by by Bureaucrats is for Cor us to deter deter- mine As heirs of the patriots who ho waged a long and bitter war for the right to make their own laws our decision should not be a tL difficult one |
