Posted on 06/13/2015 1:46:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
James Madison: Good morning, Alexander. I just read that that the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Zivotofsky v. Secretary of State Kerry, has decided that the U.S. President, now Barack Obama, has the exclusive right to recognize formally a foreign power. Accordingly, it held that the 2002 statute that allowed U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as “Israel,” was unconstitutional. I really am disturbed that, in spite of all our writing in the Federalist Papers, the U.S. is becoming an Imperial Presidency. I am very surprised that the Supreme Court has openly upheld a president who has defied an act of Congress on foreign affairs.
Alexander Hamilton: No James, I don’t agree. I know there is an idea that a vigorous executive is inconsistent with the genius of republican government. But energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks. It is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws.
Madison: But surely presidential power is at a low ebb when it defies a Congressional law. We know our friend Montesquieu thought a separation of powers was necessary. Indeed, the different branches of government may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. Devices are necessary to control the abuses of government. Men and women of upright, benevolent tempers have many opportunities of remarking how often the great interests of society are sacrificed to the vanity, to the conceit, and to the obstinacy of individuals.
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[JM] “You know something Alex...We used to tar and feather people like this in our day.”
[AH} “You’re right James, true...true...Now lets go hit the pub...I’ll buy you a pint...”
Free Trade and H-1B would have been an anathema to them.
thomas “ A good horse whipping for that boy would be good for the country. “
Good thing no one outside this website really pays too much attention to what we write here...
Otherwise we might be labeled as...RACISTS!!!
gasp...choke...spit.../sarc
;-)
James Madison: You know Alex.. America has gone to hell. seems they elected a narcissistic POS socialist muslim as a president.
Alexander Hamilton: Jimmy boy.. Americans didn’t elect that ass it was a group calling themselves progressives that infiltrated America back in FDR’s day and have destroying the country ever since. They aren’t Americans they are low life scum somewhere in the realm of snail shxt.
James Madison: Bravo Alex.. Bravo! You seen Sam Adams? I need a beer.
Considering the results of a Tea Tax and welcoming of Polish, German, and French generals into the rebellion, you just might want to revisit that statement.
Replacing American workers with foreign scabs would be an anathema to any patriot then or now.
Let’s be realistic here.
Hamilton: Hang him!
Madison: Burn him!
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