Public servants or masters?
Reason
by Steve Chapman
04/03/07
In feudal times, the people were at the mercy of their rulers. But the American Revolution upended that presumption. Our democracy rests on the proposition that all legitimate power derives from the people, and that anything the government has the authority to do, it enjoys only because the people have voluntarily granted that authority. When presidential aides or municipal employees exercise their prerogatives, they’re using tools that are merely on loan. But that’s not how Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, acted when they decided to fire a slate of U.S. attorneys. They reverted to the medieval mindset that rulers answer to no one...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119445.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kyle+Sampson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman
by Steve Chapman
04/03/07
In feudal times, the people were at the mercy of their rulers. But the American Revolution upended that presumption. Our democracy rests on the proposition that all legitimate power derives from the people, and that anything the government has the authority to do, it enjoys only because the people have voluntarily granted that authority. When presidential aides or municipal employees exercise their prerogatives, they’re using tools that are merely on loan. But that’s not how Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, acted when they decided to fire a slate of U.S. attorneys. They reverted to the medieval mindset that rulers answer to no one...
http://www.reason.com/news/show/119445.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kyle+Sampson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=firing+attorneys
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman
rudkla - 4. Apr, 16:19
