Conservative Tech: Quote of the day...

Conservative Tech

Quote of the day...

"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.
Father of the Constitution and Author of the Bill Of Rights.

Since James Madison has been dead for over 200 years, I'm guessing that our elected officials have been ignoring direct statements like this on the "general welfare" clause in Article 1 Section 8 in our constitution. Let's not stop at politicians, as teachers have also been dancing around this quote.

We have all lost the freedoms fought for in 1776 and we may never get them back.