This has been on my mind a lot, and I'm sure others. I'd like some folks with more legal experience to chime in. So we have a state of emergency with the c-19 thing, and we see state governors basically getting to create laws with no due process whatsoever.
In Michigan it's what stores can stay open, and then what you can buy there and what you can't, who you can visit and why. In California, you can be cited while sitting in your car watching a sunset. All across the country there's countless examples of usurpation of the legal process including who can cross state lines and what they must go through in terms of quarantine, etc.
So, it seems that once a "state of emergency" is declared, laws don't have to go through any process of approval, they just become mandate immediately. This scares me a lot. The police are out there enforcing these pseudo-laws that are just the whim of a single person. It takes a long time for a bill to become an actual, recognized law. There's supposed to be a process there that vets the law before it becomes enforceable.
If this experience has taught me anything, it's that the government can basically strip us of all rights, force us into self confinement (incarceration), shut down businesses and basically control every aspect of our lives without any form of due, legal process, if they deem it to be "in our best interest".
Tell me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be shining a huge spotlight on an Achilles's Heel in our system. The threshold between order and tyranny is paper thin, and in my mind doesn't hold up to our Constitution, or our basic premise, as a Constitutional Republic.
I'd like to hear your opinions.
-Coach