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Madison Gave America Outline to Handle Government
Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS, special Obamacare
exemptions, thousands of Executive Orders... The list of problems seems endless
yet the President contends Congress has taken its "eye off the ball" in order to
focus on these "phony scandals".
Isn't it amazing that America still is divided on these
issues? Whether you support the President or not, whether you support Congress
or not; the staggering list of unprecedented misuse and abuse of power currently
ongoing in Washington cries for a mass protest by Americans across the country.
Not armed warfare but protest.
James Madison told us how in Federalist Papers No. 46. The then-future
President of the United States wrote directly to the people of the State of New
York and connected to the theme he first began in No. 45. But he was more
explicit in 46.
He opens: "...I proceed to inquire whether the federal government or the
State governments will have the advantage with regard to the predilection and
support of the people. Notwithstanding the different modes in which they are
appointed, we must consider both of them as substantially dependent on the great
body of the citizens of the United States. I assume the position here as it
respects the first, reserving the proofs for another place. The federal and
State governments are in fact but different agents and trustees of the
people."
He
has set the stage but in a very different tone from what we commonly think
today. Notice, for instance, how he designates the greater authority not to the
federal government but to the State
officialdom simply by capitalizing the word 'State' not once but twice! Think
about that aspect for a moment and how far we have drifted away from the concept
of State powers.
Later
in the lengthy second paragraph he writes: "They must be told that the ultimate
authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people
alone." He continues: "Truth, no less than decency, requires that the event
in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction
of their common constituents."
With
all due respect to our elected idiots in Washington and the various State
capitols, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE POWER, it resides with 'We the People'.
Madison
caps it all in the sixth paragraph of his writing. He penned: "On the other
hand, should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in
particular States (again the power is with the States over the federalists),
which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may
sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at
hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps, refusal
to cooperate with the officers of the Union; the frowns of the executive
magistracy of the State; the embarrassments created by legislative devices,
which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any State,
difficulties not to be despised; would form, in a large State, very serious
impediments; and where the sentiments of several adjoining States happened to be
in unison, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly
be willing to encounter."
Now
obviously he envisioned compromise rather than a Civil War. But a compromise
mostly ceded by the federal government to the State government. We know that is
not the case today.
However,
Mr. Madison was himself willing to go to
war and expected his fellow citizens who also thought like him to be willing to
do the same. His version was "refusal to cooperate with the officers of the
Union."
He
was helping to set up a government but also firmly entrenching the power of the
government with the people and the people alone. He exalted the powers of the
State government above the power of the federal government.
He
did not expect our State governments to bow and throw off their mantle of
authority for the sake of federal monetary assistance. A true State government,
by Madison standards, would have shoved any and all unpopular regulations
attached to a monetary handout back down Washington's (even George's) throat.
Such a State would disbar any federal agent from setting foot inside its borders
again until such 'repugnant' authority was removed.
This
includes the IRS, NTSB, AFT, FBI, the
irrational Circuit Court system or the spittle-licking sycophants who hang
around our State-elected representatives to Washington. Homeland Security was as
foreign a concept to Madison as it could
be because he was a FREE CITIZEN capable of taking care of himself, his
family and aiding his neighbors as he chose.
The
difference is the Founding Fathers were men who had such a true belief they were
willing to go into harm's way. They didn't merely sit in front of the TV and
protest, nor did they play video games while complaining. They stepped into the
front lines against the strongest government in the world.
In
today's world, which government should we be opposing?
"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every
form of tyranny over the mind of man."--Thomas Jefferson
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