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[Rumplemeyer]

Ping, please add me to your list.
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[Bigun]

This post very adequately addresses a subject currently in the forefront of our news cycles and needs nothing to be added by me!

Thanks!

[Oratam]

Li’l Jemmy ping!

[Ken H]

James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell; 13 Feb. 1829; Letters 4:14--15

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

[Sam Cree]

I’d like to be on your list.
Thanks.

[fella]

On another thread I was trying to quote from Franlin’s speech to “The Federal Convention” of 1787 but my link to it through patriotpost.com doesn’t work because they are redoing their site. Do you have a link?

[zeugma]

President Madison was quite the prophet was he not?

[Straight Vermonter]

This is the kind of material that attracted me to FR back in 2000. Then we elected a Republican president and limited government became passe. Maybe it will become in vogue again.

[BoneHead]

Excellent stuff!

But you know that a contrarian(Progressive Democrat) will read the exact same words and come to the contrary opinion, diametrically opposed to how I read it.

I have seen two sides use the exact same scripture to argue two sides of an issue.

Keep on educating us.

Regards
Bonehead

[M Kehoe]

Good evening. Thank you for the ping.

Please pardon my rant. I have no intelligent comment to make, just a prediction. In one hundred and twenty days, after 0bama is sworn in, the Founding Fathers will be spinning in their graves.

I hate making these kinds of predictions, but it is now written...I hope I am wrong.

5.56mm

[kalee]

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[Mr. Jeeves]

The highlighted Madison quote is the very essence of conservatism, and going forward should be the first principle of either the Republican Party or whatever new party arises to replace it.

Everything else is politically irrelevant.