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To: cowtowney

That’s a fact. One congressman. Every time I think someone else knows it they end up voting happily for some travesty.

Free tag line for someone: “The genius of American government is not “democracy”—it is limited government!”

These power grabbing politicians are all poisoning the genius of American government every chance they get.


17 posted on 10/05/2008 7:27:13 PM PDT by Weirdad (A Free Republic, not a "democracy" (mob rule))
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To: Weirdad
James Madison, 13 Feb. 1829:

For a like reason, I made no reference to the "power to regulate commerce among the several States." I always foresaw that difficulties might be started in relation to that power which could not be fully explained without recurring to views of it, which, however just, might give birth to specious though unsound objections. Being in the same terms with the power over foreign commerce, the same extent, if taken literally, would belong to it.

Yet it is very certain that it grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government, in which alone, however, the remedial power could be lodged.

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_3_commerces19.html

19 posted on 10/05/2008 7:53:05 PM PDT by Ken H
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