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A Constitutional Defense of Firing the Bureaucrats Who Think They Rule Us

The American Founders were very clear:

Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.

And whenever government becomes destructive of those ends, as the Declaration of Independence states:“it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.”
That isn’t a threat — it’s a standard.

A reminder that all government exists on probation.
So what do we call it when unelected agencies — insulated from voters, Presidents, and accountability — begin to rule without consent? We call it exactly what the Founders warned against.

The Administrative State: A Government We Never Chose

The Constitution created three branches of government:
• Congress makes the laws
• The President executes them
• The Courts interpret them

But today? Agencies like the FTC, CDC, OSHA, and MTA combine all three powers into one untouchable bureaucracy.
This is not an accident — it’s a takeover.
If a board you didn’t elect can:

• impose mandates on your body (CDC/OSHA)
• tax your commute (MTA congestion pricing)
• regulate or crush your business (FTC)

… without a single vote from your representatives…
Then who is really governing the United States?
Not the people. Not the Constitution. But a permanent ruling class.

The Founders’ Warning About Unelected Power

Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 22 that when lawmaking falls into “nondescript” hands, liberty collapses into chaos and coercion.
James Madison wrote in Federalist 51:“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

And if rulers were angels, we wouldn’t need checks and balances.
Unelected power is not angelic. It is ambitious, and ambition without oversight becomes tyranny.

Why Trump Was Right to Fire Rebecca Slaughter

When Trump fired Slaughter from the FTC, he struck directly at this illegitimate fourth branch.

Not out of vengeance but out of constitutional necessity.
He is restoring what the Founders demanded:

Executive power must be exercised by someone accountable to the people.
If a President cannot fire an official who wields governmental power, that official isn’t a servant. they’re a ruler.

Trump is saying:
No more rulers outside the reach of the ballot box.

Trump’s Fight Is the Peaceful Path Forward

The Declaration makes clear:

If government no longer responds to the governed,
the people may alter or abolish it.
But Trump is pursuing the peaceable solution:
reining in the bureaucracy before the people are forced to.
He is choosing reform over revolt,
accountability over abandonment,
Constitution over chaos.
And that is exactly why the establishment fears him.

A Final Word

You do NOT want a country where the Founders’ final option becomes the only option.
Trump is fighting so we don’t have to.
Because in America, government still answers to We the People. not the people answering to the government.

Restore accountability now…
…or face the consequences the Declaration warned would come later.

References

• Declaration of Independence
• Federalist No. 22 (Alexander Hamilton)
• Federalist No. 51 (James Madison)

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