Federalist No. 26 – Janine Turner
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
“…the state legislatures, who will always be not only vigilant, but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens, against encroachments from the federal government, will constantly have their attention awake to the conduct of the national rulers, and will be ready enough, if anything improper appears, to sound the alarm to the people, and not only to be the VOICE, but if necessary, the ARM of their discontent.”
When I read these words of Alexander Hamilton, I think to myself, “ WHAT HAPPENED?” This is one of the absolute best paragraphs in the Federalist Papers! When one wants to know what’s the big deal about the Federalist Papers, when someone wants to know why the United States Constitution important, when someone says, “We haven’t strayed that much from the Constitution,” I would direct them to this paragraph in Federalist Paper No. 26.
These are the words that define the vision of our founding fathers, and the structure of the United States Constitution, in regard to restraining the federal government.
“the state legislatures, who will always be not only vigilant, but suspicious and jealous guardians of the rights of the citizens”
“against encroachments from the federal government, will constantly have their attention awake to the conduct of the national rulers”
“and will be ready enough, if anything improper appears, to sound the alarm to the people, and not only to be the VOICE, but if necessary, the ARM of their discontent.”
Have we proceeded too far to save America? Will we ever get back to the true intention of our Constitutional government? Will American’s ever cut the umbilical cord?
Are we to watch our flag burning in the street as citizens insist that the government owes them benefits? Will the age of entitlement ever be replaced by the original age of entrepreneurial vigor? Are we to sink on the same ship as Greece? Our GNP is projected to meet Greece’s GNP by 2020.
How will America survive?
If American’s do not know what they have they will not know when it is slowly being taken away from them.
As Alexander Hamilton states,“Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community, require time to mature them to execution.”
The time has come and the alarm must sound before it is too late. What are our state legislatures doing? They are not representing us in the U.S. Congress anymore and the federal government has tied their hands.
The tenth amendment needs to be revisited and rekindled.
We must act now before America’s great liberties are swallowed into the great abyss of socialism and democracy fails – but this will happen only if we let it. We must be the VOICE and the ARM of discontent. The best way to do this is by education. We must educate our friends, our family, our neighbors, our CHILDREN about the United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers and our country’s founding principles.
We must be vigilant!
It begins with YOU. Spread the word about our website and “90 in 90,” and our contest for kids!
God bless you!!
God bless America.
Janine Turner
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