About The Congress Book

Congress: An Irrelevant Institution or Guardian of the Republic.

For over half a century, presidents of both parties have steadily gained power while Congress quietly yielded authority. Executive orders, emergency declarations, administrative mandates, and the shift to State Capitalism now replace the Constitution’s lawmaking structure, which assigns all legislative authority to Congress. This shift breaches Congress’s duty to defend its powers from presidential and judicial encroachment—a duty meant to protect liberty, not politicians.

Congress: An Irrelevant Institution or Guardian of the Republic underscores that the legislative body’s decline is not just a political issue, but a step toward authoritarianism. The repeated expansion of executive powers leads Congress to forfeit constitutional authority it was never intended to relinquish.

The nation stands at a crossroads: Will Congress reclaim its role as the people’s branch, or keep yielding to presidential dominance?

When Congress honors its constitutional duty, liberty finds shelter in the law. But when it puts party or presidential loyalty above its true role, citizens are left at the mercy of those in power. Every surrender is a betrayal of Congress’s sacred trust to the Constitution and to itself.

At its heart, the book focuses on the fiduciary duty of members of Congress. They are not just politicians, but guardians entrusted with constitutional power, called to defend the separation of powers, no matter the party or president. Drawing on history, law, and firsthand Washington experience, the author reveals how Congress lost its way—and how it can regain its rightful authority.

This book does not dwell in despair; it is a rallying cry for civic courage. By highlighting the vital role of members of Congress as fiduciaries rather than mere politicians, the author lays out practical reforms to restore government accountability to its citizens. These reforms show how Congress can:

• limit presidential overreach using its spending, oversight, investigative, and legislative powers,
• return the nation to its original income tax structure – a simple form that eliminates manipulation by the elites and has low tax rates that apply the same to all filers in a bracket.
• Establish a commonsense, kitchen table type process for reducing the national debt,
• ensure the federal government is truthful in the information it provides citizens, and
• limits presidential war-making to situations in which Congress has declared war.

Congress: An Irrelevant Institution or Guardian of the Republic equips readers with the knowledge to choose a Congress that truly answers to its citizens and stands as the Guardian of the Republic.