Daily Discussions on James Madison Photos | | Ben Franklin- Who was he? | | As a homeschool mom, I have learned a great deal about this multitalented man. My girls are currently doing a project on him and I was just wondering what everyone here knows about him? Please share your knowledge with us. | |
| | Mandate, Provide, and Promote | | If I give a starving man a sandwich I am providing.
If I encourage others to give the starving man a sandwich I am promoting.
If I force feed a starving man a sandwich I am mandating.
These words are all different. The Federal government does not have the power to mandate. Now the Federal government can provide or promote, but not mandate. State governments can mandate, and the people that live in those states can leave those states. Though the option to leave one country and go to another country can be very difficult.
The framers of the Constitution recognize this. This is why the newly created Federal government was given specific powers, and from the words of James Madison who wrote the Constitution they are few and well defined. The Tenth amendment was added to explain who has the the rest of the power. | |
| | Constitutional Add Ons And Exception | | When the 13 original state governments decided to create a new national government, these 13 states created a document called the Constitution. The Constitution defined and supposedly limited the power of this newly created government. As James Madison described the powers given to this newly created government as few and well defined. In the Constitution each branch, Congress, the President, and the Judaical all have certain power and these powers are well defined. Yet through the history of this country the national government has created as I like to call add on powers. Everything from the public education system to trying to create mandatory health insurance are powers that would be described as add on powers.
When the state where asked to give up some of their own power to create this national government they demanded protection for them and their citizens. We call these protections the Bill of Rights, but really the correct terminology is the Bill of Prohibitions. These protections where absolute with wording like Congress shall not, shall not be infringed, and shall not be violated. Like the power defined by the Constitution, the national government has decided to created... | |
| | Constitution 101....clarfifying the "General Welfare" clause | | Part II of my per diem constitutional clarification series.I thought with the healthcare debate raging, and the use of the "general welfare clause" to promote the idea, now would be a good time for some clarification.[b] How ever,[/b] let this[b] not[/b] be construed as a "healthcare" debate thread, such a debate is beyond the scope of this thread. This is more to clarify what the writers of the constitution intended in general and not at all specific to any one act or policy by government. This has been used to enact and justify all manner of government action and next to the "interstate commerce" clause, is probably the most abused and misinterpreted of constitutional language.
[i] "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[/i][b] promote the general Welfare,[/b][i] and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."[/i]
[b]~ U.S. Constitution, PreambleIt should be understood that the framers DID NOt intend this to mean everything that benefits the people.... | |
| | Abolishing The Fed | | One of Congressman Ron Paul's favorite issues is abolishing the Federal Reserve, but that is not the Fed I speak of, the Fed I speak of is the Federal government. Here is my case, the Federal government was created by the first 13 state through the Constitution. The Constitution granted this newly formed Federal government, as James Madison put it "Few and well defined power". Yet the current federal government has decided that it's power are many and absolute. Take for instance the interstate commerce clause, when wrote by James Madison this clause was designed to prevent one state from barring another states products from coming into it's boarder. Now the interstate commerce clause is interpreted to give the federal government power to regulate anything they want to because something and or anything you use might have come from another state. Since the Constitution through the States formed the Federal government, once the Federal government ceases to obey the Constitution the Federal Government should cease to exist.
What should happen is every state should become once again an individual nation like they were originally, and if they so choose these individual new nations... | |
| | Constitution 101...installment #1. "seperation of church and state | | I decided to start this because of a few discussions that quoted the "seperation of church and state". There seems to be some confusion in this and I thought it should be cleared up. The term "seperation of church and state" actually stems from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Bishop James Madison.The actual text from the constitution is worded as follows:[i]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
[/i] Often called the "Establishment clause" the portion of it mentioning religion dictates that congress shall not mandate a particular religion .establish an official national religion, nor may it create laws that prohibit the free exercise of one's religion. Though many of the founders weren't what we in the modern world call "true christians" they all held a belief in "God" or a god and had deep faith and belief. This is evident through out history, documents and letters of the founders. Though they did not wish to have an established... | |
| | Another state redeclares it's sovereignty | | Washington state will become the 16th state to do this if thsi resolution passes. I have posted on this quiet revolution before, the 10th amendment reafirmation act that many states have passed. I pasted the text of the resolution for those with out a pdf reader. If your state doesn't have this yet, GET IT show it to your reps and insist on it. THIS is how we can actively take our states back from the cliurches of washington and away from the brink of totalitarianism. Simply begin exercising and re asserting the rights granted to our states under the constitution.1028.1 _____________________________________________
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4009
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State of Washington 61st Legislature 2009 Regular Session
By Representatives Shea, Klippert, Condotta, Kretz, Anderson, McCune,
and Kristiansen
Read first time 01/30/09. TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF3 REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE4 UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE5 SENATE AND SPEAKER OF THE... | |
| | Obama's in Harrisonburg, VA today! | | He'll be speaking at the James Madison University convocation center this afternoon. I would love to go, but unfortunately I don't have a way to get there. I never thought any presidential candidate would have campaign this close to where I live. Have any of you have ever attended a political rally? | |
| | Corporations,Government -Here's A Good Answer To It All | |
From Wall Street to Main Street you can hear wailing and gnashing of teeth as investors—big and small—review the balances in their stock portfolios and 401(k) plans.Corporations are failing, the government is bailing, and white-knuckled investors are holding their breath wondering when and where the market will find its bottom. Foreclosures are up, and employment is down. Workers are being laid off even as retirees are looking for jobs.Once proud corporate chieftains—long time advocates of free markets—stand with hat in hand asking the government to bail them out. Politicians are paralyzed with fear, and the public is mad as hell.The bloom is off the rose. Irrational exuberance is a faded memory. Bears rule.Perhaps you think the problems causing the market meltdown are economic and financial in nature. If so, think again. Such problems are mere symptoms of the malady. The root causes are moral and ethical in nature.For decades, secularists in America scoffed at religion and her offspring, morality and ethics. They removed religion from the realm of "truth" and reduced it to mere "opinion." Truth was limited to that which could be objectified, quantified, and... | |
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