## The Sixth Republic of America ##

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The Sixth Republic of America

"Then came September 11, 2001. The attacks of that day and the wars that followed were accompanied by a series of transformations at home. The most obvious manifestations were the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the expansion of surveillance powers, the normalization of endless military interventions, and the growth of the intelligence bureaucracy. But the deeper transformation concerned the organization of political power itself.

"Congress became increasingly marginal to governance. Major policy decisions migrated toward executive agencies, courts, intelligence institutions, emergency declarations, and presidential directives. Budgeting devolved into perpetual crisis management conducted through enormous omnibus bills that few legislators read and even fewer genuinely shaped. Presidents of both parties increasingly governed through executive orders, administrative guidance, emergency powers, and regulatory interpretation.

"The legislature remained. Its constitutional forms survived. Yet its practical role steadily diminished. This is precisely the sort of “revolution within the form” that Garet Garrett described nearly a century ago. The shell remained intact while the substance changed.

"The defining institution of the Fifth Republic was the administrative agency. The defining institution of the Sixth Republic is the security-administrative state: a fusion of bureaucratic governance, executive power, intelligence institutions, permanent emergency management, and increasingly symbolic legislative oversight."

https://mises.org/mises-wire/sixth-republic#:~:text=Then%20came%20September,symbolic%20legislative%20oversight The US #GovtIsTheProblem #USA250

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