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To: Jacquerie
I think Henry's strongest point is that there was no designed recourse in the Constitution for the violation of the rights of the people or the limits of enumerated powers. There was no penalty for the perpetrators.
22 posted on 04/13/2013 6:06:51 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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Sigh. What about judicial appointments as I asked?

As for recourse per Henry, I summarized for Madison, “But in American republican governments, the people and sovereign are identical. When the people themselves overrun the rights of the minority, to whom can the minority appeal? . . . “

. . . to a Senate of the States, the first bulwark, the enforcers of separation of powers and enumerated powers.


24 posted on 04/13/2013 6:21:38 PM PDT by Jacquerie (How few were left who had seen the republic! - Tacitus, The Annals)
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