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(GyG: IF THIS ONE DON’T GRAB YA, MAYBE YER An AINO !) ~ Madison Rising, a Rock Band, Sings The National Anthem… “Madison Rising is the name of the young ROCK band – named after James Madison, believe it or not. The lead singer is a Navy Vet. This is their version of The Star Bangled Banner, and it’s gorgeous, for any generation. I hope you like it. It’s been on the facebook, but facebook has been removing it. I’ve been sharing it on all my accoutns and on the Tea Party Community page.”
James Madison, Hamilton’s major collaborator, later President of the United States and “Father of the Constitution” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Madison Rising, a Rock Band, Sings The National Anthem
MRC TV ^ | Today | No author
Posted on Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:10:37 AM by CaptainPhilFan
Good morning! I’m sorry to post a vanity here, but I have to share this music video with you, in case you haven’t seen it.
Madison Rising is the name of the young ROCK band – named after James Madison, believe it or not. The lead singer is a Navy Vet.
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This is their version of The Star Bangled Banner, and it’s gorgeous, for any generation. I hope you like it.
It’s been on the facebook, but facebook has been removing it. I’ve been sharing it on all my accoutns and on the Tea Party Community page.
Endangered: The Constitution
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Endangered: The Constitution
Townhall.com ^ | 4/26/13 | Mark Baisley
Posted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 10:06:31 AM by harpu
This article is on the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. My purpose in posting this exposé is to do my part in calling Americans back to their spawning grounds of liberty. Based on recent trends, I fear that if we don’t frequent our founding principles then Ronald Reagan’s warning could be realized, that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
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Barack Hussein Obama Will Be The Last United States President…… | Obama
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The end of the line The United States of America was started by Puritans with the Holy Bible who made a covenant with God for the new nation. America at its inception in 1776 was a wonder to behold. James Madison said this: “
”We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” boston-bombing-was-dress-rehearsal-for-martial-law-obama
Secretary of State James Madison, who won Marbury v. Madison, but lost Judicial review. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Should the US Switch to a Parliamentary System? (This Question Hasn’t Been Asked Since Jimmy Carter) Pacific Standard Magazine ^ | April 9, 2013 | Seth Masket
Should the US Switch to a Parliamentary System? (This Question Hasn’t Been Asked Since Jimmy Carter)
Pacific Standard Magazine ^ | April 9, 2013 | Seth Masket
Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:28:06 PM by DogByte6RER
Institutions Worthy of Our Parties: Should the U.S. Switch to a Parliamentary System?
Efforts to curb legislative partisanship have weak track records, so maybe we should consider changing the other side of the equation in order to establish a government that can actually get things done.
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Rick Hasen has a really interesting paper up discussing partisan polarization and the possibility of changing the Constitution to deal with it. (And you should really read Jonathan Bernstein’s response, too.) Hasen starts off by asking whether we should be considering moving toward a more parliamentary style of government.
It’s a fair question. We have what looks like a serious mismatch between our parties and our governing institutions. We live in an era of sharply distinct, internally disciplined, programmatic parties with very different visions of how the nation should be run. That’s fine—we have some time-honored institutions, such as elections and majority-rule legislatures, for settling disagreements, even when the disagreements are sharp.
The Founders’ Great Mistake… ““The creation of the presidency was [the Framers’] most creative act.” That may be true, but it wasn’t their best work. ” !!!!! – Garrett Epps – The Atlantic
The historian Jack N. Rakove has written, “The creation of the presidency was [the Framers’] most creative act.” That may be true, but it wasn’t their best work. The Framers were designing something the modern world had never seen—a republican chief executive who would owe his power to the people rather than to heredity or brute force.
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The wonder is not that they got so much wrong, but that they got anything right at all.
According to James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, the executive received surprisingly little attention at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Debate over the creation and workings of the new Congress was long and lively; the presidency, by contrast, was fashioned relatively quickly, after considerably less discussion.
One important reason for the delegates’ reticence was that George Washington, the most admired man in the world at that time, was the convention’s president.
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Every delegate knew that Washington would, if he chose, be the first president of the new federal government—and that the new government itself would likely fail without Washington at the helm. To express too much fear of executive authority might have seemed disrespectful to the man for whom the office was being tailored.
GOVERNMENT IS FIRE!
GOVERNMENT IS FIRE!
TPNN – TEA PARTY NEWS NETWORK ^ | April 2, 2013 | Matthew Burke
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Posted on Tuesday, April 02, 2013 8:46:12 PM by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
(“The original charter of the drafters was to pen improvements to the existing Articles of Confederation. Instead, they chose to hijack the process and create a document which enslaved the nation. Federalist in the old parlance meant states rights and subsidiarity but the three authors of the fabled Federalist Papers supported everything but that. “) ~ The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by William Buppert
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
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Today, 17 September 2009, is Constitution Day. There will be paeans, abundant commentary and church-like observances of the glories of this document in making us the most blessed nation on planet earth. This essay suggests a contrarian thesis. The Constitution is an enabling document for big government. Much like the Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain is a fraud.
In this case, for all the sanctimonious handwringing and the obsequious idolatry of the parchment, it sealed the fate of our liberties and freedoms and has operated for more than 200 years as a cover for massive expansion of the tools and infrastructure of statist expansion and oppression. Among the many intellectual travels I have undertaken, this is one of the most heart-breaking I have ventured on. I want to acknowledge the compass-bearers who sent me on this journey: Kenneth W. Royce (aka Boston T. Party) and his seminal book,
GUNNY G: DIDN’T TAKE THIS GUY LONG TO GO NORTH! WE DO NOT OWE ANY DAMN FOREIGN AID! STOP PAYING IT NOW!
GUNNY G: DIDN’T TAKE THIS GUY LONG TO GO NORTH!
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/rand-paul-not-one-penny-to-countries-that-burn-our-flag/
First of all, we don’t owe the world any foreign aid!
Likewise, we don’t owe domestic aid, either!
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Short and sweet like the old woman’s dance, and she hasn’t sung yet, btw!
Semper Fidelis
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Kelleigh Nelson — Constitutional Convention Call Redux, Part 1… “I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitution Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congressmen might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey it.” —Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren E. Burger
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“I have also repeatedly given my opinion that there is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitution Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congressmen might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey it.” —Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Warren E. Burger
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“Having witnessed the difficulties and dangers experienced by the first Convention, I would tremble for the result of the second.” —James Madison, Father of the Constitution and fourth President of the United States
“All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.” —James Madison, speech at the Constitutional Convention, July 11, 1787
Traitors to the American Revolution… by Thomas DiLorenzo
EXCERPT!!!!!
…..It would require a brutal, uncompromising dictator to overthrow the federal system and adopt a British-style consolidated, mercantilist empire. As Taylor wrote (p. 237): “It seems to be nature’s law, that every species of concentrated sovereignty over extensive territories, whether monarchical, aristocratical, democratical, or mixed, must be despotick.
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In no case has a concentrated power over great territories been sustained, except by mercenary armies; and whenever power is thus sustained, despotism is the consequence.” Furthermore, “the ignorance and partiality of a concentrated form of government, can only be enforced by armies; and the peculiar ability of the states to resist, promises that resistance would be violent; so that a national government must be either precarious or despotick” (p. 238).
Yates’s notes quote James Madison as warning at the constitutional convention that “the great danger to our federal government, is the great northern and southern interests of the continent being opposed to each other” (Taylor, p. 248). Taylor quotes Madison to predict the War for Southern Independence, which would occur almost four decades later.
If northern, southern, or western interests are in sharp conflict, he wrote, and “if either can acquire local advantages from a national supremacy, it will aggravate the geographical danger apprehended by a Mr. Madison, a perpetual warfare of intrigues will ensue, and a dissolution of the union will result” (p. 249).
Gunny G: Back Where We Came From Is Where We Oughta Go…..
Axiom 3: Back to the Articles of Confederation as America’s Central Government
Americans demanding a return to limited government, a balanced budget and an end to spiraling sovereign debt have been voting for the GOP for decades and the result has been total failure on all counts. To accomplish these goals we really must turn the government structure back to our first government model, the Articles of Confederation, so the centers of real power are at the state rather than the federal level. Since 1913, it has been very easy, between maintaining the two-party monopoly and buying off Congress, for the power elite to control leviathan from the top down. This would be far more difficult if power, authority and programs were decentralized and returned to control of the individual states.
Changing the government does not mean voting in another president or changing whether the Democrats or GOP control the House or Senate. Both parties are equally guilty and responsible for the downfall of America. Yes, I would certainly prefer Rand Paul to another Democrat president following the second term of Barak Obama. And of course more liberty-oriented state house representatives as well as senators and congress members at the federal level would help to get the liberty message out.
The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by William Buppert « AMERICAN BLOGGER: GUNNY.G ~ WEBLOG.EMAIL
by William Buppert
Recently by William Buppert: Secession, Five Years Later
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
Today, 17 September 2009, is Constitution Day. There will be paeans, abundant commentary and church-like observances of the glories of this document in making us the most blessed nation on planet earth. This essay suggests a contrarian thesis.
The Daily Bell – Axiom 3: Back to the Articles of Confederation as America’s Central Government
Americans demanding a return to limited government, a balanced budget and an end to spiraling sovereign debt have been voting for the GOP for decades and the result has been total failure on all counts. To accomplish these goals we really must turn the government structure back to our first government model, the Articles of Confederation, so the centers of real power are at the state rather than the federal level. Since 1913, i
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t has been very easy, between maintaining the two-party monopoly and buying off Congress, for the power elite to control leviathan from the top down. This would be far more difficult if power, authority and programs were decentralized and returned to control of the individual states.
Changing the government does not mean voting in another president or changing whether the Democrats or GOP control the House or Senate. Both parties are equally guilty and responsible for the downfall of America. Yes, I would certainly prefer Rand Paul to another Democrat president following the second term of Barak Obama. And of course more liberty-oriented state house representatives as well as senators and congress members at the federal level would help to get the liberty message out.
Gil Gilbertson — Sheriff Will Not Obey Unlawful, Unconstitutional Orders
Dear Mr. Vice President,
As the elected Sheriff of this County, I am saddled with the duty, as well as responsibility, to uphold the Constitution and protect those people who placed their trust in me to do what is right.
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I believe in our Constitution and all it stands for. We, you and I, are sworn to protect and defend our Constitution as required through the “Oath of Office”. This same Constitutional form of government provided us with the most privileged, and envied, country in world history.
Gun Confiscation – Last Refuge of the Tyrant | Veterans Today
Few polarizing subjects are more hotly debated than gun control. Usually lost in the fray of emotional diatribes to ban guns, are the historic empirical foundations of our forefathers who fought a revolution to escape from imperial tyranny.
The true reality in today’s AmeriKa is that individual liberty is the most despised activity that any citizen can exert in their lives. Both the popular state worship culture and the authoritarian hoodlums that run the government are so fearful of armed independent citizens, that they are eager to burn the Bill of Rights. Face it, the government is committed to force you to be a ward of the state and will kill you if you resist.
The Daily Bell – Jettison the Constitution?
Let’s Give Up on the Constitution … As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions …
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Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago. – New York Times
Dominant Social Theme: We need a new approach and strong leaders.
Free-Market Analysis: Our trends for 2013 featured the advance of German-style National Socialism in the US, and this probably qualifies along those lines.
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The Times article unapologetically makes the argument for doing away with the US Constitution but what is to be substituted and how it is to work is not made clear.
U.S. Constitution Created an Empire « LewRockwell.com Blog
The U.S. Constitution created an empire. Although the evidence for this fact is overwhelming, it’s revisionist history because of the ingrained concept, reinforced by centuries of teaching and repetition, that the government created was a republic or a federated republic. With the glorification of this central government and continual reiteration by its supporters of its “virtues,” the Articles of Confederation have been shunted aside and treated as a shabby and weak form of government.
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Indeed, the central government’s overt form had voting for representatives and no emperor, but functionally and operationally it had centralized power and it had the potential to consolidate and grow that centralized power. The central government was over and above the states in the critical areas where the empire could grow. In practice, the Congress-Executive-Judiciary took the place of an emperor. The key question is not where the powers to make critical decisions lay in the new U.S. government as compared with other empires, but the scope of those powers.
The Constitution: The God That Failed To Liberate Us From Big Government ~ by William Buppert
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by William Buppert: Secession, Five Years Later
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.~ James Madison“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.
Rand Paul unloads on Obama in Tampa
‘We will not let you bankrupt this great nation!’
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A transcript of remarks by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at the Republican National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, as prepared for delivery:
When the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, the first words out of my mouth were: I still think it is unconstitutional!
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The left-wing blogs were merciless. Even my wife said – can’t you please count to ten before you speak?
So, I’ve had time now to count to ten and, you know what – I still think it’s unconstitutional!
Do you think Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas have changed their minds?
I think if James Madison, himself – the father of the Constitution – were here today he would agree with me: the whole damn thing is still unconstitutional!
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This debate is not new and it’s not over. Hamilton and Madison fought from the beginning about how government would be limited by the enumerated powers.
Gunny G’s Old Salt Marines Tavern Weblog: A NEW “KING GEORGE”
A NEW “KING GEORGE”July 24 2007 at 9:34 AMNo score for this post GyG Login Dick GainesForum Ownerfrom IP address71.1.245.84A New “King George”July 22, 2007The Nation
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column was written by Robert Scheer.http://tinyurl.com/36x4cyGeorge W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about.
Title of Nobility Clause – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (“Mr President; President So-and-So, Etc….”)
President’s title
One of the first issues that the United States Senate dealt with was the title of president. Vice President John Adamscalled the senators’ attention to this pressing procedural matter. Most senators were averse
English: Barack Obama, President of the United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
to calling the president anything that resembled the titles of European monarchs, yet John Adams proceeded to recommend the title:
“His Highness, the President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties,” an attempt to imitate the titles of the British monarch: “By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, Prince-Elector of Hannover, Duke of Brunswick” and the French monarch: “By the Grace of God, Most Christian King of France and Navarre.” Some senators favored “His Elective Majesty” or “His Excellency” the latter of which would become the standard form of address for elected presidents of later republics. James Madison, a member of the House of Representatives, would have none of it.
Jim R. Schwiesow — That Horse is Already Dead
THAT HORSE IS DEAD
…..I continue to hear the interminable and irksome braying that the nation will be saved by men from a rapidly approaching collapse and that the Constitution will be restored to the state of being created by the founding fathers.
English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I am pounded with this wearisome babble every minute of every day and it grates on the nerves like a screech of nails across a blackboard.
People that horse is already dead and has been for a century and a half; the Constitution was spiked through the heart by the uncompromising Hamiltonian enemies of federalism, interred by Abraham Lincoln amid the killing grounds of the civil war, and settled in the grave by the dirt poured upon it by a long succession of dimwitted political centralists. You are now, and always have been, subject to totalitarian control.
THE KILLING OF THE CONSTITUTION
If you do not know James Madison as the father of the U.S. Constitution you should…at the birth of the nation it was his conceptions in regard to an ascendency of personal liberties and a sovereignty of the people that prevailed against all arguments for a monarchy or a totalitarian central government. No one had a greater role in shaping American Constitutional theory and in framing the particulars of representative government than James Madison.
Prison Planet.com » Obama Claims Second Amendment About “Hunting” In Gun Control Stunt
Effort to exploit Aurora massacre for political grist accelerates
President Barack Obama has caved to pressure from his supporters and finally exploited last week’s Aurora massacre to begin the push for gun control, erroneously claiming
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during a speech last night that the second amendment is about hunting and target practice.
The Rule of Law by Andrew P. Napolitano
The greatest distinguishing factor between countries in which there is some freedom and those where authoritarian governments manage personal behavior is the Rule of Law. The idea that the very laws that the government is charged with enforcing could restrain the government itself is uniquely Western and was accepted with near unanimity at the time of the creation of the American Republic. Without that concept underlying the exercise of governmental power, there is little hope for freedom.
The Rule of Law by Andrew P. Napolitano
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The greatest distinguishing factor between countries in which there is some freedom and those where authoritarian governments manage personal behavior is the Rule of Law. The idea that the very laws that the government is charged with enforcing could restrain the government itself is uniquely Western and was accepted with near unanimity at the time of the creation of the American Republic. Without that concept underlying the exercise of governmental power, there is little hope for freedom.
The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution by Clyde Wilson
The federal constitution ratified by the people of the States provided for a limited government to handle specified joint affairs of the States. The document describes itself not as “the U.S. Constitution” or the “Constitution of the United States,” but as a “Constitution FOR the United Statesof America.
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” With this in mind, read what follows in the preamble as the purposes of this instrument: “forming a more perfect Union,” “common defense,” and “general welfare.”
Throughout the document “United States” is a plural (the States United) and treason against the United States consists of levying war against THEM.
As clear and simple as these facts are and have always been, grasping them seems to be beyond the abilities of presidents, congresspersons, supreme court justices, and professors of “Constitutional Law” at the most prestigious institutions.
Prison Planet.com » Pentagon Takes Over Civilian Duties and Sprays Mosquitos in Florida
Officialdom in Miami-Dade is working with the U.S. Air Force to spray mosquitos.
“This newest round of mosquito control involves a large C-130 cargo plane based in Ohio to spray Homestead ARB and communities of Doral, West Sweetwater, Kendall, Homestead, Florida City and areas east of U.S. 1, where heavy concentrations of mosquitos have been reported,” CBS Miami reports.
The Right To Secede by Joseph Sobran… (The original 13 states formed a “Confederation,” under which each state retained its “sovereignty, freedom, and independence.”)
How can the federal government be prevented from usurping powers that the Constitution doesn’t grant to it? It’s an alarming fact that few Americans ask this question anymore.
Our ultimate defense against the federal government is the right of secession. Yes, most people assume that the Civil War settled that. But superior force proves nothing. If there was a right of secession before that war, it should be just as valid now. It wasn’t negated because Northern munitions factories were more efficient than Southern ones.
Among the Founding Fathers there was no doubt. The United States had just seceded from the British Empire, exercising the right of the people to “alter or abolish” — by force, if necessary — a despotic government. The Declaration of Independence is the most famous act of secession in our history, though modern rhetoric makes “secession” sound somehow different from, and more sinister than, claiming independence.
Media Dismisses Warning About Tyranny and Troops on the Street as Kooky Conspiracy Theory
Media Dismisses Warning About Tyranny and Troops on the Street as Kooky Conspiracy Theory
Kurt Nimmo
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June 25, 2012
Chad Garrison‘s critique of the news that the Army is driving military vehicles through the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, is typical of the media response to this outrageous event – a local television station’s coverage “really ignited the crazies” in the same way Orson Welles’ War of World radio broadcast did in 1938, Garrison chides.
Garrison, who writes for the River Front Times, neglected to note that Welles’ drama was pure fiction, whereas the troops on the streets of St. Louis are real.
James Madison Letter to General Washington
Two hundred and twenty five years ago, and one month before the Philadelphia Convention, aka the Constitutional Convention, Congressional delegate James Madison responded to a letter from George Washington.
Secretary of State James Madison, who won Marbury v. Madison, but lost Judicial review. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
He offered thoughts on his new plan of government, the Virginia Plan. Compared to the Articles of Confederation it was radical, yet it was structurally close enough to the mixed governments of the States to be familiar as well. It would emerge in modified form five months later as The Constitution of the United States of America.
There Ought To Be a Law Against Making So Many Laws
There Ought To Be a Law Against Making So Many Laws
The Aspen Times ^ | June 14, 2012 | Charlie Leonard
Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:38:58 AM by Aspenhuskerette
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.”
Holder Declares War On State’s Rights
NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 20: United States Attorney General Eric Holder (center) stands with other officials during a press conference to announce a large-scale takedown of organized crime January 20, 2011 in New York City. A pre-dawn sweep netted over a hundred suspects from seven mob families and are being held under suspicion of murder, extortion, and racketeering. The sweep resulted in one of the largest mob arrests ever by federal authorities. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
The Department of Justice thinks it can “order” Florida to stop removing illegal non-citizens from her voter registration rolls. The Sunshine State announced it will ignore the “order.” Let’s see Barack Obama and Eric Holder back it up.
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The fight over States’ rights versus the strength of an all powerful central government has been set in motion; the fuse is lit.
The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by William Buppert
by William Buppert
Recently by William Buppert: Secession, Five Years Later
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
~ James Madison
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
~ Lysander Spooner
Today, 17 September 2009, is Constitution Day. There will be paeans, abundant commentary and church-like observances of the glories of this document in making us the most blessed nation on planet earth. This essay suggests a contrarian thesis.
The Constitution is an enabling document for big government. Much like the Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain is a fraud. In this case, for all the sanctimonious handwringing and the obsequious idolatry of the parchment, it sealed the fate of our liberties and freedoms and has operated for more than 200 years as a cover for massive expansion of the tools and infrastructure of statist expansion and oppression.
Among the many intellectual travels I have undertaken, this is one of the most heart-breaking I have ventured on. I want to acknowledge the compass-bearers who sent me on this journey: Kenneth W. Royce (aka Boston T. Party) and his seminal book, The Hologram of Liberty and Kevin Gutzman’s Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. For most of the political spectrum in America, the document represents their interpretation of how to make this mortal coil paradise.
Rick Perry Was Correct by Andrew P. Napolitano
When Texas Gov. Rick Perry, then in the early stages of his short-lived quest for the Republican presidential nomination, referred to Social Security as “a Ponzi scheme,” he was excoriated by the press, left and right, and by his fellow Republicans, as well. Earlier this week, government actuaries revealed that Perry was correct.
Governor Rick Perry of Texas speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
That revelation, which was greeted with a ho-hum by the media, basically announced that by 2033, 21 years from now, the so-called Social Security trust fund will be empty.
The only reason this was even announced is because we are approaching a presidential election campaign, and in response to Perry’s much-derided claim, the government’s actuaries, who originally told the Obama administration and the public that the fund would be solvent until 2036, re-examined their numbers and concluded that it will be in the red three years earlier than they thought.
Golden Apple; Silver Frame
By Jim ONeill Tuesday, April 24, 2012
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.”—Alexander Hamilton (circa 1755-1804)
“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government….”—From the preamble to ” The Declaration of Independence”
Refutation of the Charge That The Framers Perpetrated a Coup d’etat
Refutation of the Charge That The Framers Perpetrated a Coup d’etat
For a multitude of reasons, political and otherwise, partly inspired by deep-seated fear of any central government with real powers, however limited on parchment–in a written Constitution–the framing of the Constitution was harshly criticized by a number of people throughout the period of the ratification debates.
One of the principal arguments was that the Framing Convention acted beyond the scope of its authority, because it did not limit itself to proposing amendments to the Articles of Confederation, in keeping with the original “call” for the Convention. (Instead it proposed, in draft form, an entirely new instrument for submission to the people for consideration through their specially chosen Ratifying Convention in each State.)
Madison devoted the entire essay number 40 of The Federalist to refutation of this argument. Among the numerous and convincing reasons which he presented in support of the soundness of the Convention’s course, a main one was “the crisis” then confronting the country but only incidentally, in passing, in the process of his analysis. Yet the crisis, caused by the complete breakdown of all pretense of effective government by the Confederation, was alone sufficient to justify the Convention’s new approach to the problem.
The record shows overwhelming evidence of the completeness of this breakdown and of the impossibility of amending the Articles of Confederation so as to produce any effective remedy within its framework. Besides, earlier attempts to amend the Articles had failed. Lacking a real central government, there was for example no possibility of national security through sound national defense, or sound interstate relations economically, financially or politically, much less sound relations with foreign governments. (The previous comments about the Confederation, at pages 120 and 167, are pertinent here.)
Liberty is Null and Void…
By Dr. Robert R. Owens Thursday, April 19, 2012
America was founded as a Federal Republic. This means our nation was designed to have two levels of sovereignty. The States which pre-date the central government and which created the central government is to be one level and the central government they created was to be the second. The separate States first combined to found a central government when they drafted and ratified the Articles of Confederation in 1781. This combination was strengthened and expanded in the writing and ratification of the Constitution in 1789. However, in both of these new beginnings it was always stated and assumed that the States were the building blocks out of which the whole was built.
The Anti-Federalists sought to safe guard the inherent rights of the Sovereign States in the face of a proposed national government which concentrated power and superseded the primacy of the States. The Anti-Federalists are often dismissed by those of succeeding generations who have been educated by the victorious philosophical descendants of the Federalists, as mere obstructionists and people of no-account. However, their ranks were filled by some of the greatest names of the Revolutionary times such as Samuel Adams, George Mason, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
Another well-known leader of the Antifederalists, Patrick Henry, questioned the very legitimacy of what are possibly the most famous words in the document: “We the People” when he said, “I have the highest veneration for those gentlemen; but, sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states.”
Once the Constitution was maneuvered through the ratification process most of the Anti-Federalists faded into the background. Forgotten were their war time services and forgotten were their warnings that a central government once established would inevitably grow in power to eclipse the States.
In the early days of the Republic the former Anti-Federalists attempted to keep alive the idea that it was the States which had created the central government and that the States therefore had the authority to determine if the central government had overstepped the authority which had been delegated to them by the States. They proposed to do this through a process known as Nullification.
It’s time to part company – Walter E. Williams – Townhall Conservative Columnists
,,,But I’d suggest that there’s a far more important long-run question we must answer: If one group of people prefers government control and management of people’s lives, and another prefers liberty and a desire to be left alone, should they be required to fight, antagonize one another, and risk bloodshed and loss of life in order to impose their preferences, or should they be able to peaceably part company and go their separate ways?
LAS VEGAS, NV - FEBRUARY 01: Tyson White of Nevada wears a Ron Paul campaign shirt with the United States Constitution written on it as Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appears at a 'Hispanics in Politics' event February 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Nevada GOP caucus will be held on February 4. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Like a marriage that has gone bad, I believe there are enough irreconcilable differences between those who want to control and those want to be left alone that divorce is the only peaceable alternative. Just as in a marriage, where vows are broken, our human rights protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been grossly violated by a government instituted to protect them. Americans who are responsible for and support constitutional abrogation have no intention of mending their ways.
Let’s look at just some of the magnitude of the violations. Article 1, Section 8 of our Constitution enumerates the activities for which Congress is authorized to tax and spend. James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, explained it in The Federalist Papers: “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.
The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. …
Prison Planet.com » Obama Impeachment 2012
Film director, producer, actor and writer Sean Stone has thrown his weight behind a resolution introduced in the House last month by North Carolina Republican Walter Jones. Resolution 107 states that should the president use offensive military force without the authorization of Congress that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor.”
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution reserves exclusively for Congress the power to declare war. Both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison argued that the power to declare war must reside in the legislative branch of government and the president will only act as the commander-in-chief and direct the war after it is declared by Congress.
“The constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the legislature,” Madison wrote.
In the video, Stone notes Obama’s unconstitutional war on Libya was waged “despite the fact that the United States was neither attacked, nor threatened for attack by the nation of Libya.”
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said during questioning by Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama that the Obama administration does not believe Congress has the exclusive right to declare war and that the Pentagon answers to the United Nations, not the people of the United States.
Can the gov’t force you to eat broccoli? ~ Judge Napolitano…
Chief Justice John Marshall established a broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This week, the Supreme Court measured Obamacare to see whether it fits within the confines of the Constitution. The big picture is whether the Constitution limits the behavior of the federal government to the plain meaning and historical context of the Constitution, or whether clever lawyers and politicians can interpret language in the Constitution so as to justify whatever Congress wishes to do. Does the Constitution mean what it says? Does it limit the federal government to the powers it has delegated to Congress? Or is it a blank check for Congress to do whatever it can get away with?
(Pic/Video) OBAMA BURNING CONSTITUTION ACCURATELY DEPICTED IN PAINTING “ONE NATION UNDER SOCIALISM”
Barack Obama delivers a speech at the University of Southern California (Video of the speech) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Artist Jon McNaughton, who also vividly painted Obama trampling on the Constitution while Founding Fathers and previous presidents observe (some happy, some sad), is not stopping there.
McNaughton’s work, deemed “controversial” by the Left, shouldn’t be viewed that way at all. What is controversial is that Obama is actually obliterating the Constitution.
That’s where the outrage should be directed, not at McNaughton’s work, but at the fact that we’ve elected a Marxist as president who’s destroying the greatest nation in the history. McNaughton is simply accurately depicting this tragic, yet fully documented reality…
Controversial Artist Release Obama ‘Burning Constitution’ Painting
Controversial Artist Release Obama ‘Burning Constitution’ Painting
Jon McNaughton
March 21, 2012
“I pledge allegiance to the United States of America,
And not to an ideology, which can never stand,
One nation under socialism, divisive,
With no liberty or justice for anyone.”
MORE @ LINK…
(“add Republican neo-cons and RINOs to that list, as they are left-wing as well—that is and, the”) A Man for all Treasons and the US Constitution
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By Jim ONeill Monday, March 19, 2012
“Breathes there the man with soul so deadWho never to himself hath said,This is my own, my native land!…If such there breathe, go, mark him well;…The wretch, concentred all in self,… doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.”—Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 excerpt from “The Lay of the Last Minstrel”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” James Madison 1751-1836
“Father of the US Constitution” Federalist #51 The Campaigner in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, is of course only the most visible element of a vast left-wing conspiracy. Take a stroll through “Discover the Networks” if you doubt me—the “Tides Foundation” is a good place to start.
Note: the connections are so widespread that the webpage may take some time to load—be patient, the network will eventually appear.
(““A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits (of government) is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” – James Madison, Federalist Paper #48, 1788.”) Obama Executive ‘Order’: US can seize any person, any resource, any time
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“A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits (of government) is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” – James Madison, Federalist Paper #48, 1788.
President Obama signed an Executive Order for “National Defense” yesterday that claims executive authority to seize all US resources and persons, including during peacetime, for self-declared “national defense.”
The EO claims power to place any American into military or “allocated” labor use(analysis here and here).
A d v e r t i s e m e n t
“American exceptionalism” is the belief that a 200+ year-old parchment in the National Archives has magical powers to somehow guarantee limited government from 1% tyranny, despite the specific and clear warnings of the US Founders, despite world history of repeated oligarchic/1% tyranny claiming to be for the “good of the people,” and despite US history’s descent into vicious psychopathy (short version here: US war history in 2 minutes) hidden in plain view with paper-thin corporate media propaganda.
I don’t know about you, but both my grandfathers were in the US military during the gruesome WW1. My father, father-in-law, and only uncle were in a brutal WW2. Both wars were functions of colonialism; a 1%’s vicious and rapacious greed.
Now, we’re all looking at WW3 that includes official policy and dark rhetoric for US first-strike use of nuclear weapons on Iran. This, after multiple current lie-started and treaty-violating wars surrounding Iran, increased US military preparations, multiple war-propagandizing US political “leaders,” and recent history of US overthrowing Iran’s democracy and 35 consecutive years of US war on Iran that killed over one million Iranians.
Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution
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Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution
CBS ^ | February 3, 2012
Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 7:05:03 PM by NCjim
In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by 43 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to stop.
This tableau is called “The Forgotten Man”, a painting by Jon McNaughton, an artist who is known for his politically-charged work.
The painting, which uses objects such as discarded dollar bills as symbols and scraps of paper with individual constitutional amendments scrawled onto them, has been making the rounds across the Internet.
Chuck Baldwin — What Ron Paul’s Detractors Reveal (“He knows that the reason America is in the mess it is in today is because the Constitution has been abandoned. And he also knows that the only way to fix it politically is to return to constitutional governance.”)
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…..Dr. Paul knows the Constitution. He has studied it. He has read what America’s Founding Fathers and framers have written about the Constitution. He has studied the enlightenment philosophers, theologians, and teachers–you know, the same ones that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison studied.
He knows that the reason America is in the mess it is in today is because the Constitution has been abandoned. And he also knows that the only way to fix it politically is to return to constitutional governance.Therefore, when Dr. Paul talks about drugs, foreign policy, military adventurism, or even social issues, he does so from a constitutional point of reference. And the Constitution is clear when it comes to these matters. Domestic drug laws are the exclusive responsibility of the states–as is virtually every other law enforcement matter. Foreign entanglements, empire building, turning our military personnel into the world’s policemen, etc., are all anathema to constitutional government.
And the longer our political leaders continue to ignore the Constitution, the more America will continue to slide down this slippery slope in which we now find ourselves.
James Madison and the Making of America by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Kevin Gutzman’s James Madison and the Making of America takes what we thought was a familiar story and gives it a fresh and important interpretation that challenges old orthodoxies and helps us better understand important episodes in American history.
For instance, proper credit for the world-historic Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom is at last granted not to its draftsman, Thomas Jefferson – who had his gravestone list the statute along with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the University of Virginia as his proudest achievements – but to James Madison, who actually managed to get the statute enacted and who would have nothing inscribed on his gravestone.
More significantly, we are treated to a precise and detailed description of Madison’s evolving role vis-a-vis the drafting of the Constitution.
At the Philadelphia Convention Madison had championed a much stronger central government, a veto over state laws, and a diminished role and significance of the states.
He favored a national rather than a federal government, and one in which the states would be retained insofar as they might be “subordinately useful.”
His major proposals, including the veto of state laws, a legislature with plenary authority, and basing both legislative houses on population, were all rejected.Madison may be known as the father of the Constitution, but Gutzman is having none of it.
The Constitution: The God That Failed To Liberate Us From Big Government by William Buppert
Recently by William Buppert: Secession, Five Years Later
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.~ James Madison
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“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain — that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”~ Lysander Spooner
Today, 17 September 2009, is Constitution Day. There will be paeans, abundant commentary and church-like observances of the glories of this document in making us the most blessed nation on planet earth. This essay suggests a contrarian thesis. The Constitution is an enabling document for big government.
Much like the Wizard of Oz, the man behind the curtain is a fraud. In this case, for all the sanctimonious handwringing and the obsequious idolatry of the parchment, it sealed the fate of our liberties and freedoms and has operated for more than 200 years as a cover for massive expansion of the tools and infrastructure of statist expansion and oppression.
Among the many intellectual travels I have undertaken, this is one of the most heart-breaking I have ventured on. I want to acknowledge the compass-bearers who sent me on this journey: Kenneth W. Royce aka Boston T. Party and his seminal book, The Hologram of Liberty and Kevin Gutzman‘s Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.
For most of the political spectrum in America, the document represents their interpretation of how to make this mortal coil paradise. Even in libertarian circles, it is taken as an article of faith the Constitution is a brilliant mechanism to enlarge liberty and keep government at bay.
That is a lie.The document was drafted in the summer of 1787 behind closed doors in tremendous secrecy because if word leaked out of the actual contents and intent, the revolution that had just concluded would have been set ablaze again.
Kelleigh Nelson — The Phony Rightwing: Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum, Part 2
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“I believe there are more instances of abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations …” -James Madison
Many of you who read my articles and write me wonderful letters and even take the time to send me gifts have actually become wonderful cyber friends. Because so many of you have requested these articles on the GOP candidates, I’ve had to dredge through their backgrounds and their voting records for documentation. It has not been an easy task, and I’m always relieved when I’m finished with writing about another one of these traitorous leaders. In the previous article on Santorum, the research was on his somewhat hypocritical pro-life stance. In this article we’ll be looking at his voting record and fiscal policies. The articles on Rick Santorum will be three parts.
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