[Texas Eagle]

I forget which Founding Father said it but one of them referred to our own Constitution as a "parchment barrier" against oppressive government.

That's why they put in the Tenth Amendment. It's up to us, the people, who are expected to be the final physical barrier against such.

[Jacquerie]

Right you are.

James Madison wasn't all that supportive of a Bill of Rights, because he had seen the VA legislature get around the VA Declaration of Rights. He did indeed regard them as parchment barriers. He was right. Few of our constitutional rights are in force.

Madison regarded division of power as our best security.

Our post-17th Amendment history proves that the horizontal separation of powers between the congress, prez, and courts is insufficient.

It why the first line of freedom's defense was the vertical division of power, between the states and the government they created.