by Anna Von Reitz
I am often asked, mostly by older Americans, "What happened to Checks and
Balances?"
For younger readers, let me explain. We were taught that our government
depends on the principle of "checks and balances" to function properly. The
Founders deliberately set up the State Governments as a "check" --- a means to
block --- Federal Government overreaches, and keep the whole machinery of
government "balanced".
Both the concept of "checks and balances" and the reality of it has faded
away and all levels of government ---county, state, and federal---have
increasingly become rubber stamps for each other. Why?
