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The GOP talking the talk. Can we encourage them to walk the walk???

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The GOP talking the talk. Can we encourage them to walk the walk???

The answer to that is NO. I offer for consideration the 'rules change,' from the most recent RNC Convention.

[skinkinthegrass]

The GOP talking the talk. Can we
encourage them to walk the walk???thanks, for such an informative thread.
We must demand of encourage them...
(of course; actions are far more worthy, than just mere words)
Is the Romney part of the Romney / Ryan
Team honestly pursuing this?
I believe Ryan IS...Romney...well.

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Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who was most in favor of a strong central government, did not support the concept of a central government that assumed powers not specifically delegated to it by the proposed Constitution. He believed that the proposed Constitution gave the central government no power to infringe on the rights not specifically enumerated as delegated to it.

Because of this he believed the Bill of Rights was unnecessary. He wrote:

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colourable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why for instance, should it be said, that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power. They might urge with a semblance of reason, that the constitution ought not to be charged with the absurdity of providing against the abuse of an authority, which was not given, and that the provision against restraining the liberty of the press afforded a clear implication, that a power to prescribe proper regulations concerning it, was intended to be vested in the national government. This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights."

Obviously, even Hamilton didn’t believe that the central government that the States were creating had any power not specifically enumerated in that document. According to him, those who would later argue that the central government had powers not specifically enumerated in the Constitution were “men disposed to usurp”. For far too long those disposed to usurp have held power.