The Federal Establishment’s lust for power and control is insatiable. The more they get, the more they want. It is a mind altering drug. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They are destroying the country, the economy, and the Constitution, while claiming to be the only solution to society’s problems. The more power and control that is vested in the Governmentalist Party ( Democratic- Republican ) and the Federal Establishment, the less power and control there is for individual states and individual citizens.

       As early as May 1787, delegates to the Continental Congress raised concerns about how much power to allow the central government. During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. The Bill of Rights was born. Perhaps it should have contained more restrictions on the Federal government.

       The three branches of the Federal Government do not appear to be content with their own powers. They want to usurp the powers of the other two branches and the rights of the people.

       We have activist judges who want to legislate from the bench, presidents who want to declare war without the consent of congress, and a congress that wants to redistribute the people’s rightful incomes. The current Obama Administration is pushing the envelope to frightening levels. The White House is predetermining the outcome of the Federal Bankruptcy Court proceeding. The President demands that Congress follow his extravagant spending plan. The current Administration is playing favorites in the marketplace. The White House is deciding who will be winners and who will be losers.

       Not surprisingly the understanding and character displayed by the Founding Fathers far surpasses that of any modern day politician.

       “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, obligate it to control itself.”

                                  -James Madison

       “I know no such safe deposit of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves. And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.”

                                  -Thomas Jefferson

       “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”

                                  -Patrick Henry

What course will you take?