Q:”If Congress passes legislation … who is to say the legislation is not “appr

–Q:”If Congress passes legislation … who is to say the legislation is not “appropriate”–

Good Question.
Unlike europe where the parliament is sovereign (rules) over the people, in the USA, the people are sovereign, not the government, and the constitution enumerates the terms by which the people grant the government responsibility for administration of the environment in which the people live.
Consequently, the Constitution limits what is ‘appropriate’ for congress to legislate.
The limit is the natural law that the founders relied upon as stated in Blackstone. And the natural law is best disambiguated by ‘the natural law of cooperation under universal defense of sovereignty of the individual in his demonstrated interests, and the resulting demand for reciprocity in display word and deed.’
As such does the legislation passed by congress violate the natural law of cooperation, which in the abstract means ‘does it impose costs upon the demonstrated interests of the population without just compensation for that imposition’?
And costs here mean the entire spectrum of demonstrated interests whether personal, kin, private, semi-private, common informal, common formal, or common material.
As such the congress, because of the laxity of the court during the marxist-trotskyist attempt to undermine the constitution, commonality and concurrency, and natural law, sought by lawfare and by positive law, to create sovereignty for the legislature against the people, during the 50s thru 70s.
This court (thanks largely to the Federalist Society’s work since 1980) seeks to restore the constitution and the sovereignty of the states and the people. And this president seeks to do the same. both of which return the government to the service of the union of states rather than to some desire for world government – a world government we sought to end world wars, but which was captured by the financial, bureaucratic and academic and media sectors to create world government and subvert national sovereignty to some globalist ideology.

Cheers
CD

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