What role do judges and the judicial system play in supporting freedom?

What role do judges and the judicial system play in supporting freedom?

The judicial system from top to bottom are the backbone for supporting freedom in our country. From the bottom of the ladder or the start of it is the police officers. They maintain and protest rules in society and make sure that our freedoms are safe in our society and that others do not violate them. Also, on this level is corrections and this helps make sure that people that violate their rights are punished and pay back what they have done. On the top of the ladder is the judges and Supreme Court. At this level they make sure that everyone's constitution rights are being upheld and that new laws and bills can't violate the constitution like the current health care bill. 

Power and Representation in Congress

Congress should think twice before forcing a government shutdown, as the consequences could be the loss of the power of Congress to control spending through authorization and appropriation bills.

Congress permitted President George W. Bush to accumulate new powers in the executive, and these powers have passed to Obama. Bush succeeded in establishing that, as a wartime commander-in-chief, he had the “inherent power” to disobey the laws against torture, spying on Americans without obtaining warrants, and indefinite detention. In addition, Bush used signing statements in ways inconsistent with his oath and obligation to uphold the laws of the United States, and he took the U.S. to war based on lies, deception, and fabricated “evidence,” an offense that qualifies as treason.

With these precedents, it is a simple matter for President Obama to declare that, with the U.S. at war in a world of growing instability, he has the inherent power to ignore the debt limit and to continue financing the government with the creation of new money by the Federal Reserve.

Congress could try to protect its loss of the power of the purse by impeaching Obama. But how credible would it be to impeach a wartime president who is using the same “inherent power” of his office that Congress permitted the previous president to use?

The powers that Bush asserted not only violated statutory law, but also set aside constitutionally guaranteed rights that are the essence of American liberty. Yet, Congress made no attempt to restrain him with impeachment. How then does Congress impeach a president who is merely using his power to keep a government at war operating?

As President Bush’s acts were not deemed impeachable offenses, it seems likely that Congress has lost its power to impeach through default.

In what ways does the U.S. Presidency support and limit the formation of an ideal democracy?

I believe that the best U.S. President to support the formation of an Ideal democracy is one that is a conservative and one that doesn't want a government to be big and have regulations and bail out powers.  The best one that comes to mind is Ronald Reagen.  The government should not have to much power and control over us the democracy in which they do now.  When Obama passed the new health care bill it's something that limits our democracy and which it is now being consider a violation of the Constitution.