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Unconstitutional: Who Decides? States via Nullification or Supreme Court?

Originally published December 7, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 3, 2013. 4 Comments

Unconstitutional: Who Decides? States via Nullification or Supreme Court?

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding, and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties, which may make anything mean nothing or everything, at pleasure.” Many people are seeking solutions to rein in the growth of government, most particularly […]

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Majorities Don’t Always Know Best

Originally published July 24, 2010, By Linda. Updated October 13, 2012. 4 Comments

Majorities Don’t Always Know Best

Did you ever seek to persuade your mother to let you do something by telling her that “everyone else is doing it”? Mothers all over the world are prepared for that one! “If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would that make it all right for you to leap off it as well?” Clearly, an […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Power

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

POWER When Excess of Power Prevails Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected; no man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ~ James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, March 27, 1792 Essence of Government is Power The essence of Government is power; […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Executive Branch

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

EXECUTIVE BRANCH Quotes coming soon!

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GiN Quotes Collection: Judicial Branch

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

JUDICIAL BRANCH Not Paramount to Legislative Body (R)efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character…makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper. ~ James Madison, letter to John Brown, October 1788 Undermines Country’s Fabric The judiciary of […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Patriotism

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

PATRIOTISM Stand by the Country Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Corruption

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

CORRUPTION Only A Virtuous People Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt, they have more need of masters. ~ Benjamin Franklin Corruption Will Not Secure Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. ~ Samuel Adams […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Republic vs Democracy

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

REPUBLIC VS DEMOCRACY Breads and Circuses The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Government

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated May 4, 2012. Leave a Comment

GOVERNMENT Previously featured on our front page: Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. ~ Calvin Coolidge, Fourth Annual Message, December 7, 1926. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: The Constitution

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated January 1, 2009. Leave a Comment

THE CONSTITUTION People are the Masters We the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts-not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ~ Abraham Lincoln Instrument of the People The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an […]

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