The United States offers several examples of equality within the people, and how they express their action in society. De Tocqueville, Author of Democracy of America states that the main point of democracy was the public having a sort of dedication to having the equality among the citizens in the U.S. They took property and liberty without paying for it as the Constitution requires them to do, not the feds.The Tyranny of the Majority is explained as a cruel and unfair treatment by leaders with absolute power over civilians. The states should be paying the political and financial consequences for their misdeeds, not the feds.
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The states mandated the unconstitutional and crippling lockdowns of 2020-2021, not the feds. They take whatever cash Congress offers, and they accept the strings that come with it. Thus, it offered hundreds of millions of dollars to the states to lower their speed limits on highways and to lower the acceptable blood alcohol level in peoples' veins - this would truly have set Madison off - before a presumption of DWI may be argued all in return for cash to pave state-maintained highways.
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If Congress wants to regulate an area of human behavior that is clearly beyond its constitutional competence, it bribes the states to do so with borrowed or Federal Reserve-created cash. This has happened because Congress has become a general legislature without regard for the constitutional limits imposed on it. If you are fed up with the highest state taxes in the union in New Jersey, you can move to Pennsylvania.īut the more state sovereignty the feds absorb - the more state governance that is federalized - the fewer differences there are among the regulatory and taxing structures of the states. If you don't like the over-the-top regulations in Massachusetts, you can move to New Hampshire. Reagan also famously said that we could vote with our feet. Had I been the scrivener of that speech, I'd have begged him to add: "And the powers that the states gave to the feds, they can take back." President Ronald Reagan reminded the American public in his first inaugural address that the states formed the federal government, not the other way around. And some of them - like retaining state sovereignty - created laboratories of liberty. Part of Madison's genius was to craft anti-democratic elements into the Constitution. Nor would Madison have stomached the efforts today by liberal Democrats to amend the Constitution to provide for the direct popular election of the president. Wilson did that by leading the campaign to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the direct popular election of senators. Had Madison been alive during the presidency of the anti-Madisonian Woodrow Wilson - who gave us World War I, the Federal Reserve, the administrative state and the federal income tax - he would have recoiled at a president destroying the three-sided table. His Bank Speech remains just as relevant today. Given the popular fears of a new central government, Madison assumed that the Bill of Rights would be quickly ratified.
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He gave that speech in February of 1791, 11 months before the addition of the Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments - to the Constitution. In that speech, he warned that the creeping expansion of the federal government would trample the powers of the states and also the unenumerated rights of the people that the Ninth Amendment - his pride and joy because it protected natural rights - prohibited the government from denying or disparaging. In his famous Bank Speech, Madison argued eloquently against legislation chartering a national bank because the authority to create a bank was not only not present in the Constitution but also was retained by the states and reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment. The judiciary, whose prominent role today was unthinkable in 1789, was not part of this mix. And the third side stood for the nation-state - the presidency.