Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/04/21/its-not-what-the-american-people-want/ Alexander's Essay – April 21, 2011 It's NOT 'What the American People Want' It's what our Constitution requires "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson The oft-repeated mantra of Barack Hussein Obama and his Leftist cadres is that their public service obligation is to accomplish "what the American people want." At best, this constitutes a gross misinterpretation of the constitutional role of the executive, and at worst, it wholly and maliciously discards the intent of that august Founding

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