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WHY is it that we keep finding ourselves complaining about one aspect or another of the federal government? Whether you are a democrat who can't stop "decrying the injustices perpetrated" by the Bush administration, a republican who can't find anything good to say about the current Obama administration or an independent who thinks they should all be thrown out of office, the people of this nation are sick and tired of their elected officials not representing them.

More and more, there is an outcry from the citizens of this nation for its federal government to be brought back under the controls and restraints set out by the Constitution of the United States of America. Our Founding Fathers had the good sense enough to engineer a system of checks and balances within the federal government, as well as dictating that the actual power in this country would lay with "We the People", not congressional committees and special interest groups. But what can we, the people, really do about it?