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  • NOTES ON THE CONSTITUTION

    02/22/2003 10:49:06 AM PST · by forest · 39 replies · 478+ views
    Fiedor Report On the News #303 ^ | 2-23-03 | Doug Fiedor
    What do you think the Founding Fathers would say about the oppressive legislation, rules, regulations, and executive orders emanating from today's federal government? Luckily, in The Federalist Papers No. 78, Alexander Hamilton gives us a pretty good idea: "There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above...