Today, we have Spending bills not being originated in the House, EO's acting as federal laws, ie; covid mandates...etc...Have we balled up the Constitution and thrown it in the trash? Many feel we have....Today, every president, every governor, every congressman and state legislator, every elected politician, and every judge and justice of every court, both state and federal, knows that most of the “laws” controlling Americans are, in fact, the products of non-elected administrative agencies rather than constitutionally-authorized legislation from federal or state legislatures. All these actors go along with it to get along.
So, Houston, we have a problem: we are no longer a democracy, whether direct or representative! This exercise of unconstitutional power by the executive branch agencies to enact laws is truly a great source of many of our problems today. Do We Have A Democracy?