To: ADReditor; Osage Orange; GOP Poet; Army Air Corps; ducdriver; o_zarkman44; nuconvert; MeekOneGOP; ..
Well done ADReditor. There are many here on FR deeply interested in things Constitutional, and this bunch is keenly interested in things 10th Amendment! Ping for a great article folks.
Click the 10th Amendment button for all articles tagged with keyword "10thamendment"
7 posted on
02/11/2009 5:13:31 PM PST by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on!)
To: ForGod'sSake
James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, elaborated upon this limitation (general welfare clause) in a letter to James Robertson:
"With respect to the two words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
"If the words obtained so readily a place in the "Articles of Confederation," and received so little notice in their admission into the present Constitution, and retained for so long a time a silent place in both, the fairest explanation is, that the words, in the alternative of meaning nothing or meaning everything, had the former meaning taken for granted."
9 posted on
02/11/2009 5:16:21 PM PST by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: ForGod'sSake
10 posted on
02/11/2009 5:16:37 PM PST by
Popman
(One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress - John Adams)
To: ForGod'sSake
I’m not sure how I got on this Ping List, but PLEASE keep me on it! Thanks! :)
13 posted on
02/11/2009 5:18:58 PM PST by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: ForGod'sSake
Please add me to your pinglist
To: ForGod'sSake
38 posted on
02/12/2009 12:12:12 AM PST by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
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