Wednesday, July 17, 2013

July 17, 2013

"A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal."

--Thomas Paine, Constitutions, Governments, and Charters, 1805

Friday, July 12, 2013

July 12, 2013

"[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed."

--James Madison, to Thomas Jefferson, 1787
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013

"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? It is feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American... [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people."

--Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1788
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Monday, July 8, 2013

July 8, 2013

I'll be on KIT 99.3 and 1280 AM today at 4:05 PM to talk about the Legislative Session.