To: tpaine
James Madison disagrees with you:
"Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution. ... The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite."- James Madison
60 posted on
02/29/2004 9:37:37 PM PST by
FBD
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To: FBD
The supremacy clause trumps Madisons opinion.
61 posted on
02/29/2004 9:54:06 PM PST by
tpaine
(I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but the U.S. Constitution defines conservatism; - not the GOP. .)
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