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Patrick Henry “Ratified”: The Treaty Power, It’s Perils and Portents
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2371062/posts
[For those who don’t know, the power of treaties is a clear and present danger to our freedom. Progressives view it as an ‘end-run’ around our constitutional rights. This gets into why and ...]
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They Told You So
In 1787, when the Federal Convention was called and the Constitution written, celebrated champions of liberty such as Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams refused to attend. When questioned upon the reason for his decision, Mr. Henry spat out his famed opinion of the Convention process:
‘I smell a rat.’
You’ve got to like Patrick Henry, if only for his candor.
Little did he know how prescient was his suspicion. Whether Mr. Henry regarded his influence as insufficient to inflect the outcome (and thus his presence to be effectively complicit in a travesty (my conclusion)), or whether he believed his powers of persuasion in Virginia to be sufficient to derail the effort at a later date is not material. The more important lesson is that for these ‘anti-Federalists (a-F)’ to remove themselves from the battle was a great misjudgment, reflecting the foibles and weakness of faith so common to us all.
We can no longer afford such a luxury.
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[Hat tip to Carry Okie, the meek author.]
A little hint — Carry Okie [a published author] tags a few articles [including his own writing] with his screen name as a key word:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carryokie/index