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In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the document's acknowledged father, wrote in Federalist Paper 45:
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.”
Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, “To hell with the Constitution”?
FGS: Do you think we should concentrate our efforts in our States now? We are getting nowhere with phone calls to our Fed Reps.
Maybe if enough State Republicans use some muscle, we can get some national publicity, and the public's attention. A public that sorely needs some civic and constitutional education.
We must get them away from the spell of Obama....soon.
I absolutely believe the states may be our last, best hope to regain our freedoms. It's my belief the states should have been in the watchtower from the beginning, and in the beginning I believe they were. From what little I know of history, the states jealously guarded their Constitutional turf. But, after decades of federal abuses, the states have been all but neutered. I'm sure several books have been written to explain how we arrived at where we are, but the hard truth is, if we are to regain anything resembling what our Founders envisioned, SOMEONE has got to draw the line. The states are in a better position to make it happen than we are. Will they?
I think the events of the last few months are ample proof we have lost our voice in DC. They heard us loud and clear on the first round of the pigout scheme but after what I saw as good cop/bad cop, rope-a-dope machinations between the house and senate we are going to leave a debt our grandchildren can never retire. They will be working for the new government/corporate partnership.