The U.S. Constitution failed to place specific qualifications for mental
fitness of a President, while giving him almost unlimited authority of
life or death over people everywhere.
Author/researcher Ferdinand Lundberg, in "The Rich and the Super Rich",
published in 1968, noted regrettably the President had unlimited
constitutional power to raise armies, domestic or foreign, and to wage
war;
"He could order an overnight assault
against any country, thereby precipi-
tating general war. He could, in full
constitutionality, order all of the armed
forces into the depths of the Congo and
nobody coud legally halt the operation."
As if to make Lundberg's findings an actual legislated fact, Congress
approved The War Powers Resolution of 1973 that said, in essence, that
the President could engage the armed forces in warmaking and delay
informing Congress for 48 hours before Congress could halt the action.
Modern weapons, of course, could leave massive death and destruction in
a fraction of the time allotted.
Intelligence researcher and author John Prados, in his 1986 book
"Presidents' Secret Wars", told of covert, clandestine, paramilitary,
and special operations, all euphemisms for secret warfare. The New York
Times Book Review described the information as "important", and the
Washington Post Book World said it was "worthy and informative", but
Presidential warmaking powers remained in force.
A person could qualify for the office and powers of President more
easily than obtaining a drivers license. No examination was required
for holding this unprecedented power of a dictator, power that even top
military chiefs who had to pass qualifying examinations for lesser
positions did not have. A President had only to pass a popularity
contest in votes.
With an AUTHENTIC CONSTITUTION in harmony with the natural
Cosmic Laws of the universe, and producing High Moral Values and
Democratic Ideals, the powers of government are decided by all individuals
equally, and those who are given positions of responsibility are examined first
for their mental fitness.
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