Not even close. The thrust of his argument was the need for more power, not less.
The thrust of his argument was the need for more power, not less.
Your own post at #3 contradicts you:
--- we have this excerpt from a 1785 letter from James Madison to James Monroe:
Much indeed is it to be wished, as I conceive, that no regulations of trade, that is to say, no restriction or imposts whatever, were necessary. A perfect freedom is the System which would be my choice. But before such a system will be eligible perhaps for the U. S. they must be out of debt; before it will be attainable, all other nations must concur in it.
3 posted on 06/09/2005 10:07:25 AM PDT by inquest