[wasp69]

LOL! I was going to post practically the same thing last night. I actually feel embarrassed for the Wlat Brigade knowing that 'fakeit' is one of theirs.

What I can't understand is why "fakeit" would want to try and cannonize Grand Old Partisan as some kind of authority when all you really have to do is hit him with a few documented facts and he slinks away name calling. Then again.......

[4CJ]

In Federalist #78, Hamilton wrote about THE 'fundamental principle of republican government', which 'admits the right of the people to alter or abolish the established Constitution, whenever they find it inconsistent with their happiness.'

And in the Virginia ratification debates, one James Madison stated this, 'An observation fell from a gentleman, on the same side with myself, which deserves to be attended to. If we be dissatisfied with the national government, if we should choose to renounce it, this is an additional safeguard to our defence.'

John Marshall reiterated that the powers can be resumed by the states, '[w]e are threatened with the loss of our liberties by the possible abuse of power, notwithstanding the maxim, that those who give may take away. It is the people that give power, and can take it back. What shall restrain them? They are the masters who give it, and of whom their servants hold it.'

Marshall went further, stating that 'the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants.' Not a perpetual delegation.