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Vice President at The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Jan 17, 2020
Jacob Hornberger joins Judge Napolitano on Liberty File to discuss Donald Trump, the recent conflict in Iran, what the Constitution says about the Presidential Powers, and Jacob's run for the President of the United States in 2020 as a Libertarian.
Originally Aired: 1/17/2020 on Fox Nation
Jack B Frazier
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The Future of Freedom Foundation Jun 2001 to Present · 23 yrs 3 mosVice President
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I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference
August 8, 2024
In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking
at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual
conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking
there for the past several years.
I will be speaking on “A Limited Government Republic
versus a National-Security State.” As longtime supporters of The Future
of Freedom Foundation know, I contend that the biggest mistake America
has ever made, in terms of destroying our freedom, peace, and
prosperity, was the conversion of the federal government from a
limited-government republic, which was our nation’s founding
governmental system under the Constitution, to a national-security
state, which has never been bound by the Constitution.
The
reason my speaking at this event is such a big honor is twofold: 1)
When it comes to advancing liberty, Ron has long been a real-life hero
of mine, and (2) Ron, Dan McAdams, and Adam Dick, who are the principals
in the Ron Paul Institute, have long done courageous and inspiring work
advancing freedom.
The one-day main conference is being held on Saturday,
August 31, at the Hilton Washington Dulles Airport from 9:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. The Young Scholar’s part will be on Friday, the day before, at
the same venue.
The admission price to the main Saturday conference is
$85. There are also sponsorship packages. Those who sponsor a student to
attend the Young Scholars conference will be entitled to attend both
parts of the conference—Friday and Saturday. Details on registering and
purchasing sponsorships are on the conference website.
People who attend the conference can get a discounted room
rate of $109 at the Dulles Airport Hilton. The conference website has a
link to the hotel to secure the discounted rate.
The conference has traditionally revolved around foreign
policy and civil liberties. This time around they are expanding the
conference to encompass a wide array of very interesting libertarian
topics. The outstanding list of speakers include Ron Paul, Andrew
Napolitano, John Meashheimer, Jeff Deist, Dan McAdams, Gary Heavin,
Joseph Mercola, and Joel Salatin. Biographic sketches of each speaker as
well as full details of the conference are on the conference website.
Although I’ll be speaking on Friday, I will be popping in
on the conference on Saturday. If you attend, please come up and say
hello if you see me. I hope to see you all there!
To register, here is the conference website.
Israel and the Nullification of the Constitution
August 7, 2024
An article
posted yesterday on the website Responsible Statecraft states
“According to a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, only
41% of Americans support the idea of U.S. troops defending Israel, even
if its neighbors attacked it.”
If that statement were made in a U.S. District Court, one
of the federal attorneys would undoubtedly stand up and object by
declaring, “Irrelevant and immaterial, your honor!” There is no doubt
that the presiding judge would sustain the objection. It doesn’t matter
one iota what the American people think about whether the nation should
go to war. The determiner of that issue is the national-security
establishment — namely, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA. When it
comes to war and foreign interventions, they are the ones in charge.
Of course, it wasn’t meant to be that way when the nation
was founded. The last thing the Framers and the American people wanted
was a governmental system in which either the president or the military
made the decision on whether the nation was going to war. That’s why
they included the declaration-of-war provision in the Constitution.
The Pentagon.
The declaration-of war provision states that it is
Congress — i.e., the elected representatives of the people within the
Senate and the House of Representatives — that wields the power of
deciding whether the nation will go to war. Thus, while the Constitution
vested the power to wage war within the executive branch, it vested the power to declare
war within the legislative branch — that is, within Congress. Without a
congressional declaration of war, it is, therefore, illegal under our
form of government for the president or the military to wage war.
The Constitution is supposed to be the highest law of the
land. It is supposed to control the actions of federal officials. Thus,
just as they expect us to obey their laws, no matter how much we might
disagree with them (drug laws come to mind), they are expected to obey
our law of the Constitution.
The Constitution brought into existence a totally
different type of governmental system than that under which we live
today. It brought into existence what is called a limited-government
republic. It was a type of governmental system in which the government
was not vested with
“inherent” powers. Its powers were limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
“inherent” powers. Its powers were limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
For more than a century, there was a relatively small,
basic army, which fell within the executive branch. As part of the
federal government, it was subject to all the restraints and constraints
of the Constitution, including the declaration-of-war provision. That’s
why presidents had to seek and secure congressional declarations of war
for the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World
War II.
In the late 1940s, however, the federal government
underwent the most revolutionary transformation in American history. It
was converted from a limited-government republic to what is called a
national-security state.
The distinguishing characteristic of this new form of
governmental structure was its overwhelming power within the federal
governmental system — power that was no longer constrained by the
Constitution. Becoming sovereign and supreme within the federal
government, the national-security state effectively nullified the
Constitution. It was all done without even the semblance of a
constitutional amendment.
Thus, it is no surprise that there has been any number of
wars waged by the U.S. government since the conversion and that none of
them have involved a congressional declaration of war. That’s because
the national-security establishment, not the Congress, now wielded the
power to decide whether the nation would go to war.
Today, people continue to hew to the quaint notion that
the vast military-intelligence establishment still falls within the
executive branch. Pure nonsense. Since the very beginning of the
conversion, the other three branches — the executive, legislative, and
judicial — understood that things had changed dramatically in America
and that the national-security establishment had, as a practical matter,
become a separate branch of government— and the most powerful branch,
one that the other three branches would end up deferring to and
supporting.
Under the Constitution, it is the responsibility of the
federal judiciary to enforce the Constitution against the other branches
of the government. Yet, notice something important: The federal
judiciary has never dared to enforce the declaration-of-war constraint
against the national-security branch of the government. That’s because
federal judges and the justices on the Supreme Court know that they are
unable to enforce such a ruling given the overwhelming power of the
military-intelligence establishment. For that matter, the same
deference-to-authority mindset is exemplified by the federal judiciary’s
refusal to enforce the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment when
it comes to assassinations or the infliction of cruel and unusual
punishments by the national-security establishment.
Much of the time, the president and the Pentagon/CIA/NSA
are on the same page with respect to foreign affairs. But that too is
irrelevant and immaterial because it is ultimately the national-security
branch that makes the final decision. In that case, the president is
much like the Supreme Court and Congress — he comes on board with
respect to whatever the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA decide in order
to create the false appearance that he is in charge.
Thus, as the U.S. national-security establishment gears up
to come to the military defense of Israel, it is important that
Americans, many of whom are convinced that they live under the same
governmental system as our American ancestors, confront reality: We live
under a governmental system in which our nation and our very lives,
liberty, and well-being are subject to the decisions of the Pentagon,
the CIA, and the NSA. That’s not what the Framers and the American
people intended when the Constitution called the federal government into
existence.
This post was written by:
Jacob G. Hornberger
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of
Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and
received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his
law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for
twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the
University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr.
Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at
the Foundation for Economic Education.
He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all
across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van
Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew
Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at
LewRockwell.com and from
Full Context. Send him email.
Email: fff@fff.org
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