Posted on 12/06/2014 3:31:08 PM PST by OldNavyVet
However proper or safe it may be in Governments, where the Executive Magistrate is an hereditary monarch, to commit to him the entire power of making treaties, it would be utterly unsafe and improper to intrust that power to an elective Magistrate of four years' duration. It has been remarked, upon another occasion, and the remark is unquestionably just, that an hereditary monarch, though often the oppressor of his People, has personally too much stake in the Government, to be in any material danger of being corrupted by foreign powers. But a man raised from the station of a private citizen to the rank of Chief Magistrate, possessed of a moderate or slender fortune, and looking forward to a period not very remote, when he may probably be obliged to return to the station from which he was taken, might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the State to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue, which would make it wise in a Nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a Magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.
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Obamba's use of his powerful position seems to fit in with this excert from Hamilton No 75
How dare you sir, suggest that our tarnished leader is power-hungry, he is just sticking it to the white guy.
/sarcasm
It does however apply and most decidedly so.
Stop quoting anti-government extremists. It makes us look bad. /s
Hamilton was one of the first enemies of modern day conservatives.
bump
Maybe, but this was a very conservative opinion.
I know little, admittedly, about Hamilton.. But I didn’t know he would be considered an enemy of modern-day conservatives.
How did Publius know about Obama?
He was for a central government and no States and all for a massive federal reserve style banking system we have today.
He and Jefferson were seldom on the same side of any issue. Hamilton prevailed with Washington and Adams at the helm...which eventually led to the FED and excessive public debt.
not to mention an Occupancy of our WH that apparently isn’t an American to begin with (and certainly is not a Constitutionally qualified one for the post)
The Federalist Papers quote contemplated a loyal USA citizen.
If you “elect’ a foreign enemy agent, one already the recipient of massive foreign enemy funding ... he has no loyalty to America to begin with...
just hypothetically, of course.
The treaty power was divided with the senate in part, to prevent a potentially traitorous president from betraying the US.
yes indeed.
but there’s apparently no stopping someone who just does what he wants (with or without sending any treaties to the Senate)
this is especially the case when the House of Reps leadership is in cahoots... or just doesn’t want to bother doing its job (consider a bill of impeachment, etc.)
we are in deeeeeeeep doo-doo
I have. Why don’t you? A single author is not the only voice in the matter.
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