Professor Buckley wrote a shorter, opinion article for Fox News that included information from his recently released book, “The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America.” The book describes an America that is returning to a crown kind of government, like when King George III ruled in Britain.

In the article, Buckley references George Mason during the 1787 Convention when the Constitution was created. Mason remarked that the American President would become an “elective monarch” and worse than the real thing.

Law Professor Buckley, of George Mason University

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Buckley explains that while this government didn’t start with President Obama, he has certainly taken it to a higher level. The professor says that the way President Obama makes and unmakes laws without consent on Congress; the spending of government dollars; committing America to war; and rewarding his friends while punishing his enemies makes him “rex quondam, rex futurus – the once and future king.”

“Who cares which party controls the Senate, if all the action is at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue,” said Buckley in his column. He believes that if Democrats want to continue to complain about the underfunding of Senate campaigns then they only have themselves to blame for the Obama administration.

He believes that the main idea that the founder’s had in mind when creating the Constitution was if political power became centralized in a single person, this would be a threat to liberty. America is and has been democratic, in Buckley’s opinion. He fears that if the media doesn’t start showing more interest in the quick rise of presidential power then the future will begin to resemble the past.