Collaboration

Early in our history, three of our founding fathers worked together to strengthen our country.

James Madison had designed our "hybrid" government such that power was divided among the states and the federal government, and also among the three branches of the federal government, such that we have a "majority rule" governance which protecting the "inalienable rights of the minority or even an individual.

Hamilton sought to strengthen the federal government's power over the states, by getting congress to pass a law that caused the federal government to "assume" the debts of the various states they had incurred in support of our war of independence.

Madison opposed the law, and they were at impasse.

In steps our much misaligned Thomas Jefferson! He brought the two previous collaborators in the Federalist Papers together and a deal was made. Madison would get the Federal capital set on the Potomac, and Hamilton would get the assumption of state debt. The effect over the years was to shift supremacy to the federal government and provide sufficient economic strength to survive the Civil War and two World Wars.

Sadly. expansive Federalism was NOT the answer (as proven in spades again and again). I am thankful for a return of power to the people and chipping away at those feasting at the Federal table. Eliminating or vastly reducing the Federalista "overreach" on the basis of wasting tax money is today's task; much more could be cut on the basis of the 10th Amendment. We need the smallest Federal bureaucracy possible, not just the least wasteful of our money.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

One Party, the Democrats, advocates for an ever expanding Federal Government, and the other Party pays lip service to reducing the size and reach of the Federal Government.

But on the other hand, we need a sufficiently strong Federal Government to protect our citizens from the evil doors, especially those with nuclear weapons, or jihadists.

We do not need the Department of Indoctrination wrecking our schools to reward teacher unions. Talk about a kick-back scheme.

Van said:

One Party, the Democrats, advocates for an ever expanding Federal Government, and the other Party pays lip service to reducing the size and reach of the Federal Government.

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Last few weeks show more than the usual feigned conservative stand, so hope springs eternal that this might be different.