Public-private partnerships and pressure on the Constitution
Public-private partnerships and pressure on the Constitution
US government has resolved it by embracing the partnerships and abandoning the Constitution.
Interesting editorial by Brian Harrison, District 10 representative in the Texas House of Representatives, previously Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and James R. Lawrence, III, previous Deputy General Counsel at HHS, and Chief Counsel of the FDA under President Trump:
Banning COVID Mandates is the Pro-Liberty Position.
At the federal level, the OSHA, CMS, and federal contractor mandates applied pressure to the private sector.
As law professor Richard Epstein observed, “there is an ever tighter interdependence between public and private institutions so that it is no longer as easy for the latter to claim independence from constitutional oversight when the federal government has either by promises or threats ‘insinuated’ itself into private actions,” which it has in this case.
This provides another window into understanding how and why the Constitution has been suspended in the United States since Jan. 31, 2020.
The increase in public-private partnerships (constituent components of the corporate-state) through government-industry power alliances with Big Pharma, Big Defense, Big Tech, Big Media, puts pressure on the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, which is all about limiting the government’s power to oppress people and protecting individual human liberty from government abuse of power.
The path of least resistance, for the corporate-state, is not to compel corporate compliance with Constitutional principles.
The path of least resistance for the corporate-state is to completely, quietly, abandon the Constitution and Constitutional principles of limited government.
Add the fact the big business has completely taken over the media and you have the greatest constitutional crisis ever with the government's influence over big business and thus the media. But hey, 81,000,000 people voted for this right?
Interesting and fundamental point of information here! Also, all good comments. I worked in a municipal government for many years, and saw the rapid increase in public/private initiatives being used to accomplish what the local government could not do on its own. So here's the game: If the government cannot accomplish a project for the benefit of its citizens only, then it must approach the citizens for permission to seek further funding, etc. But, in no way should the government join in a venture that benefits a private company using the funding from, and the power of its citizens. Using public/private initiatives risks the strength of our constitution to limit the power of government OVER the citizens. One glaring example was a major improvement project on a river running through the heart of the city, including the purchase of large swaths of properties adjacent to the riverfront to be redeveloped into commercial, retail, and residential businesses. It was a major part of the focus of city government for over a decade. $Billions were spent, lives were impacted. Afterward, the project was abandoned, the costs written off. The loss of Constitutional freedoms for the citizens and the limitation on the government were masked by the public/private initiative under which the project was undertaken - and abandoned.