Celebrate it by learning to
enforce the whole constitution. Advice from James Madison.
The Tenth
Amendment Center
222 years ago today, the Bill of Rights
was given "life." But it has no meaning if we just talk about
it one day each year. For us at the TAC, Bill of Rights Day is every
day. And our goal is to educate people on how to enforce the entire
Constitution.
Today, we encourage you to read, learn and share - James Madison's wisdom:
Today, we encourage you to read, learn and share - James Madison's wisdom:
A
good place to start in determining how to enforce the Constitution is with the
guy who’s commonly referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” While
there’s some debate that James Wilson was actually far more fitting of that
title, Madison
The
essential question: When the federal government violates the constitution, what
do you do about it?
Here’s what Madison
“Should an
unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular
States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure
be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are
powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and,
perhaps refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union, the frowns of the
executive magistracy of the State; the embarrassment created by legislative
devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any
State, very serious impediments; and were the sentiments of several adjoining
States happen to be in Union, would present obstructions which the federal
government would hardly be willing to encounter.”
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