Posted on 08/26/2009 5:07:32 AM PDT by Tolik
Mike Church, on Sirius Patriot, is about to read this piece in its entirety on the air.
Bump for a later read, thanks.
When America's Founders and Framers of their Constitution wanted to convince ordinary farmers and citizens of the merits of a written "People's" Constitution to limit the powers of those to whom they entrust the powers of government, they published and circulated 85 essays, known as THE FEDERALIST.
It's time for citizens, once again, to examine those strong and clear words of Madison Hamilton, and Jay. They are just as clear for today's audience as they were then.
Circulate the following excerpts to your friends. Even the least politically savvy will "get" Madison's meaning, especially in light of the power grab now going on in Washington. After all, THE FEDERALIST was the Framers' authoritative explanation of their Constitution, and directed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia in 1825 to be used as the text for its law school in its studies of "the general principles of liberty and the rights of man," and said by Jefferson to "constitute 'the general opinion of those who framed, and of those who accepted the Constitution of the U.S., on questions as to its genuine meaning.'":
"The house of representatives... can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"Such will be the relation between the House of Representatives and their constituents. Duty gratitude, interest, ambition itself, are the cords by which they will be bound to fidelity and sympathy with the great mass of the people." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." - Federalist Papers, No. 57, February 19, 1788
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure." - Federalist Papers, No. 58, 1788
"The propensity of all single and numerous assemblies (is) to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow." - Federalist Papers, No. 62, February 27, 1788
Note particularly the following words of wisdom from Federalist No. 63, and take heart, dear citizens, you are doing what you were meant to do:
"As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind?" - Federalist Papers, No. 63, 1788
Regarding the theme of your post, see my tagline.
I think to call this 'reparations' might mislead by overstating this man's allegiance to the African-American identity. This is not a black thang with Barrack. His ideological allegiance does not emanate from the African-American experience (for indeed he doesn't come from it himself). Not at all.
His allegiance is to the offshore third worlder view that America is the root of all evil. The reparations he seeks are for those abroad who want revenge for a nation which stands as a slap in the face to their inadequacies & the wealth he wants to spread around is to them. He wants to annhialate America's economic preeminence as revenge for them, as does his patron George Soros. He wants to destroy America's superior health care system because it's just 'not fair" that Americans are able to enjoy the timely delivery of quality health care when there are so many in the Marxist third world (and even in the declining socialist first world countries) who do not.
This man Obama serves as the "president" not for the American people, and certainly not for African-American people, but for every Third World tinpot dictator & kleptocratic tyrant for whom America stands as the shining symbol of negation of everything they are not & as haunting proof of their inadequacies.
In Obama's zero-sum gaming mind, if there are poor countries which exist in the world, it is not because of the criminally corrupt and/or controlling elites there who are shackling their citizens' economic potential, it is due solely to the fact that imperialistic America is strong & powerful and is arrogantly hogging the world's finite (to him) wealth.
It's so ironic that the state run media should endow this President with the traits of someone who is 'progressive' & future-oriented, when the troglodytic zero-sum economic world-view to which he subscribes is the economic equivalent of the flat earth theory.
VDH hits another one out of the park
“Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history, bar none. Kim Philby couldn’t tie his shoes.”
Amen, brother! Obama has no equal.
Yes, he has a good number of those lately.
Of course, for Hanson it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. We are in this conundrum only because so many people, with best intentions, elected a smooth-talker with charisma as his only visible quality. They wanted to believe, and Obama told them what they wanted to hear. They ignored the fact that he told the very opposite to others. Media decided not to investigate glaring holes in his background and the election machine as well. His perfect lefty history was ignored by people who heard only moderation in his speeches. Now he lives up to his lefty background. The only surprising thing (to me) is the sheer scale of his assault, not the fact of it.
Agreed, although I’d add that the “reparations” theme is tied to the third-worlder view. It might be overstating his allegiance to the AA identity but, (this is difficult to express), I think he ties the “victim hood” of the AA community to the same cause and effect you refer to in your second paragraph. That is to say he sees them as part and parcel of a long list of peoples, third world and those living in first world countries who have been sacrificed on the alter of America’s greatness. And your post ties in to the theme of “De-Development” which the “Global Marxists” (of which he certainly is, as a method of “leveling” wealth throughout the world.
What Odumbo wants and what Odumbo will get are 2 different beasts. Approval rating today is 51%. He’s sinking like a lead balloon.
What Glenn Beck talked about yesterday. Tune in today to hear Rush Limbaugh and Beck talk about FRee Speech.
The best thing to do is stop anything and everything from happening in and by congress. Political monkey-wrenching.
YES! Perfect! Agreed 100% ;you made the thought much better than I was able to do.
Ironic only if one assumes that the MSM is lettered in a classical education.
The abyssmal gap between our Constitution and our government would be grounds for massive impeachment if there were a body committed to the Constitution. There is none save the people.
Recent upwellings of protest by the people may yet grow into a cleansing of the Temple. Assuredly the den of vipers that currently swarm in our capitals need to be defanged.
It’s not that he doesn’t understand, it’s that he doesn’t care. I think VDH is right on with this piece, and sums it all up well:
“By the time a shell-shocked public wakes up and realizes that the prescribed chemotherapy is far worse than the existing illness, it should be too late to revive the old-style American patient.”
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