{"id":3023,"date":"2015-06-19T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2015-06-19T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:33:15","slug":"why-does-congress-diminish-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-does-congress-diminish-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Congress Diminish Itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3024\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/why-does-congress-diminish-itself\/congress\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1140,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images\\\/iStockphoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;US Capitol Building in Washington DC&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;458996523&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Congress\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;US Capitol Building in Washington DC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress-300x132.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress-1024x449.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3024\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress-1024x449.jpg\" alt=\"US Capitol Building in Washington DC\" width=\"610\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress-1024x449.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Congress.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Founding Fathers set up Congress as the most powerful of the three branches. Per the U.S. Constitution, Congress possesses \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/articlei\">all legislative power<\/a>.\u201d This includes the most fundamental tools of governance and state-building, such as laying and collecting taxes, coining money and regulating its value and deciding what persons may join the nation as citizens. The monarchs of old Europe might have been able to wage war willy-nilly, but in America, the Founders permitted the legislature alone to \u201craise and support armies,\u201d \u201cprovide and maintain a navy\u201d and \u201cdeclare war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet over the past century, Congress has diminished in power&#8230;(read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/2015\/06\/19\/why-does-congress-diminish-itself\/\">R Street Institute Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Founding Fathers set up Congress as the most powerful of the three branches. Per the U.S. Constitution, Congress possesses \u201call legislative power.\u201d This includes the most fundamental tools of governance and state-building, such as laying and collecting taxes, coining money and regulating its value and deciding what persons may join the nation as citizens. 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