Happy Birthday, James! And Sorry About Your Constitution
269 years ago today, one of our great Founding Fathers was born.
James Madison would become the fourth President of the United States, but probably more importantly, the “Father of the Constitution” and author of its Bill of Rights.
A member of the House of Representatives and resident of the White House, as we stand today at the “precipice” of a new governmental seizure of 1/6 of our economy, this great man is likely rolling over in his grave at the thought of the former body about to pass a bill without voting on it that the current occupant of the latter is ready to sign with great haste in spite of the overwhelming opposition the electorate consistantly demonstrates.
I wonder, What would James Madison, the author of the and 10th Amendment to the Consitution think?
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)
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Rolling over in his grave? No question. ObamaCare represents everything that Madison, Hamilton, and the other Framers designed the Constitution to prevent.
Ben Franklin told one American that they gave us “A Republic, if you can keep it.” It’s getting more and more clear that we’ve lost it.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — March 16, 2010 @ 11:20 am - March 16, 2010
How can you have any kind of constructive dialogue with hyperbolic lamenting like that? James Madison was adamant in his opposition to intermixing church and state but you don’t get your knickers in a twist when something like that comes up. Then it’s all “John Adams would be rolling over in his grave!!!” Whatever the issue, you simply find the founding father with a position most like yours and he’s “ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE!!!”
For some reason, the coalition of “founding fathers,” many of whom had strong opinions that opposed others in the group, were able to temper their differences to help form a single nation broad enough to accommodate all their ideas. You could learn a lot from that particular experience.
Comment by Countervail — March 16, 2010 @ 10:23 pm - March 16, 2010