07-07-2015, 09:05 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: The Natural State
Posts: 29,940
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Originally Posted by OldDog
No. Enormous centralized government comes at an enormous cost.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State."
~ James Madison, Federalist No. 45
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa45.htm
The problem with federalism is that it offers insufficient opportunities for graft. |
he'd have a fit if he saw how bloated the fed has become....and our standing army would be the icing on the cake.
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