July 4th 2011: A Celebration of Independence, or a Requiem for it?

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     It seems a bit odd for a nation wherein many now embrace control by and dependence upon centralized government to celebrate it’s founders rejection of-get this-control by and dependence upon centralized government. Continue reading

Dependence or Independence?

James Madison

James Madison

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
~ James Madison, Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 3rd Congress, 1st Session, page 170, January 1, 1794