Food for Thought
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Consider the following quotes food for thought. The reasoning underlying them all is sound. It is true that judgement can be subjective. This is especially so when judgement fails to be based on reason.. "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." –James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1792 "It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly withi...