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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand January 23, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 11 READERS OUTLOOK ( ontinued from pip 2 OPINION - was REVEALING enough. However, some of the most SORDID paragraphs were omitted. Al and his wife came to our bookstore on the day of Christmas Eve to purchase several sets of McGuffey Readers, which they were planning to send down to V. Va. as their Christmas presents I to each other. was just overwhelmed by some of the literature they left with me - but also by their generosity in wishing their Christmas presents" to be sent to the private schools now springing up in this highly disturbed area - that 1 contributed several McGuffey workbooks to the cause. I read some of this material at breakfast time today. Iam68 years OLD - and I must confess I am not only in a very deep state of SHOCK over the contents of some of this material - but am wondering HOW I got this far in life without ever having heard about it. Needless to SAY - we learned to READ - WRITE and do VERY GOOD ARITHMETIC in school. We learned to SPELL - we didn't DEFY our teachers and neither did we have a lot of filthy minded school-boar- d members inflicting all this GARBAGE on our uncluttered minds. I don't know HOW you can in your these materials incorporate excellent paper, without becoming PORNOGRA PHIC - but needless to say - some effort should be made to give this explosive situation MORE publicity. You might discuss this matter with your editorial staff. Sincerely. Blanche Cone Willow Springs. III. 60480 HOUSE ISC GOING? DOWN THE DRAIN! un-polut- ed. Dear Editor: An open letter as sent to Mr. John Ashbrook and Mr. Richard I chord. I am quite concerned with the attempt to make the House Internal Securities Committee a under the Judiciary Committee. It is obvious from Congressional leanings over the past several years, that this is really a move to limit, if not destroy completely. the only active force still Communism working against within our government and our Country. Giving aid and comfort to our enemies is treason, and the time of judgment may be much closer than most Congressmen believe. Our representatives have levied excessive burdens of taxation upon us to provide industrial and technological aid to our sworn enemies, and at the same time, worked vigorously to destroy our national security and military capability. I he American War For Independence was (ought against less oppression than we now face, due to recent legislation. I believe the second to be near at hand. Please relay these thoughts to the Congress and make another attempt tochangethetrend toward by lighting to keep the Internal Securities Committee intact and unchanged. Walter Merritt Sandpoint. Idaho 83864 sub-committ- ee so-call- ed EXECUTIVE ORDER 11490 Continurd from pigr 10 reading this 33 -- page, 2, 000 -- word document, and realizing that it could have'been implemented by one word from President Nixon, will find his blood running very cold because every President from George Washington to Gerald Ford has had exactly the same power to issue such Executive Orders, and President Ford has issued at least two of them, both relatively mild, however, in the short time that he has been in office. For instance, one of these establishes a clemency board to deal with amnesty for draft dodgers. Anybody Executive Orders, like Presidential Proclamations, have the same force and effect as Congressional laws. Actually, therefore, they amount to legislation made by the President, in spite of the fact that under the Constitution of the United States all legislative power is expressly vested in Congress. It is likewise an established principle of constitutional law, more honored now in the breach than in its observance, that because of our constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of our Federal Government, the powers of one branch may not be delegated to another branch. This being so, while Congress must necessarily leave the administration and enforcement of its laws to the Executive Branch, it may not pass its power to make such laws over to the President, even when or if Congress should attempt to do that in so many words. Nevertheless , all Presidential Executive Orders begin with language such as this: "By virtue of the authority vested in the President by Section 'X' of the Congressional Act of Blank date, any person in the United States who now or hereafter owns this, or does that will be required etc. , etc. If such an Executive Order is, in effect, a law, and is enforced as such, as they all are, then in fact the power has been illegally passed from Congress to the President, and the order would, prima facie, be unconstitutional. Nevertheless, while that question is law-maki- ng half-doz- en frequently raised, there are less than a cases in our history in which the Supreme Court has consented to hear and then decide that such an Executive Order is invalid. that his client had been indicted and jailed for violating a law that did not exist, at least the attorney could not find a copy of it in the Statute books. The law in question was the so-call- "Petroleum Code," a part of the Presidents Executive Order declared pursuant to the new National Recovery Act. Supreme Court Justice Brandeis then asked who promulgated and published these Presi-dential- ly created codes that were alleged to have the force of law? The answer was that the President promulgates them himself and files power, which in the instant case was an agreement between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Maxim Litvinov, Peoples Commissar for Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union. The agreement consisted of an exchange of letters containing mutual pledges by the U.S. and the U. S. S. R. in connection with U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia on November 16, 1933. The fact that the highest court of the State of New York had decided otherwise made no difference. Incidentally, protection against this sweeping invasion of state and personal rights was the Bricker purpose of the proposed constitutional amendment which failed to pass the United States Senate by only one vote, short of the necessary 23. The explanation of the effort to establish this constitutional protection against Treaty Law and the Supreme Law now being made by Executive Orders in Foreign Relations was the first objective of the Manion Forum when it was established in 1954 (Broadcast Nos. 17, 18, 19 and 20). so-cal- The only place in which these orders and proclamations are officially published is in what is called the Federal Register, which is hard to find even in the best libraries. Such publications as the Congressional Code and Administrative News, published by the West Company in connection with the U.S. Code An- notated, also contain Executive Orders. Until 1936 the Federal Register did not exist. This publication was started as a result of the hearing of what has been called the "Hot Oil" cases in 1934. At that time the U.S. Government attorneys were attempting to enforce one of these Executive Commandments made by President Franklin Roosevelt. One of the attorneys opposing the government complained , Every man cannot be THE best, but he can be HIS best. -- Mira beau led All this adds up to the lesson to be learned from the footnotes of the Watergate controversy. Congress is finally awakening to the danger of unrepealed statutes which form the basis of Presidential Executive Orders, such as Nixons No. 11490 which create the never-endipower of the President to declare emergencies that permit him to rule indefinitely by decree. All of these statutes should be repealed at once. Congressional action to prevent the surrender of our personal and states rights by Executive Agreements with foreign nations is likewise necessary. ng A new Hard To Find ed version of the Bricker Amendment, proposed by Congressman John Ashbrook, of Ohio, is now pending in Congress (H.J. Res. 584). This amendment needs to be passed by Congress and promptly ratified by the states if our free enterprise capitalistic system is to be preserved from destruction by some President of the U. S. through Executive agreement with Soviet Russia or Red China or both. Our present exposure to Executive Orders amounts to a complete, periodic abdication of Congressional power by the Congress to the President, whenever he pleases and whoever he may be. What is needed immediately is a Congressional law which will limit any Presidentially declared national emergency to 60 days. That is certainly long enough for Americans to live under the absolute power of any manv Pray that while you are waiting for Congressional action, the fateful Executive order will not come. |