Read James Madison: Federalist 10, "The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection."
you DAMNyankee proto-fascists neither understand or desire real LIBERTY.
fyi, Madison was NOT writing scripture & he was wrong about MANY things, just as every other person is. fyi, because someone wrote it someplace does NOT make it factual/correct/intelligent (your nonsense exhibited on FR is proof of that!).
also, may i point out that YOU have NO facts/knowledge/wit to tell anyone what to think/believe/feel, as you are WELL-known by all to be one of the most clueless of the "DY empty-heads".
free dixie,sw
Xie, you are so naive it's dangerous.
Madison wrote:
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
From the heart of a true conservative (President Ronald W. Reagan) "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Reagan - a former Democrat (one of those that the anti-Southerns yahoos love to revile), understood perfectly that government was not the be-all end-all solution to every ill, government tends to invent cures for diseases that don't exist.
Having an "R" besides ones name does not make one a consrvative, the "R" does not make them into someone passionate about liberty and freedom from an oppressive government/nanny-state. If Lincoln were passionate about enforcing laws he would have enforced the fugitive laws, yet nowhere did he advocate sending troops to resupply enforce the law in northern states. He was a hypocrite, a flaming liberal hell-bent on destroying a faction, a faction of people that disagreed with his socialist/Whig politics.
You'd think we could get a moderator in here (on these threads) that was a strict constructionist. Possibly one that understood that the government we have today - albeit better than some alternatives - is a far cry from what we had at our founding.