As we prepare for a Project Appleseed weekend at Monmouth, Maine, we think a lot about the choices our forefathers made and why they took such great risks for us. Too few of us understand the great risks they took for us. However, our forefathers like James Madison loved us enough to warn us of the perils we face. “If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the “general welfare”, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress. Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.” – James Madison, Letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1792
Posted on: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:43:59 +0000
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