Thursday, February 3, 2011

When Congress, the President, and the Courts Usurp the Constitution...

In order to determine whether or not Congress, the Executive, and the Courts have "misconstrued" their duty and are exercising powers not warranted by the Constitution -- it is every citizen's DUTY to read both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence regularly.  It is only by being informed regarding the constraints on those offices that the PEOPLE can properly exercise their obligation to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.

Our obligation to future generations mandates that each of us become informed and actively remove any elected official that does not abide by the highest law of the land -- and in the process correct the inroads that have been made on our freedoms by past excesses.  The duty was clearly spelled out by James Madison in the quote, below.

"What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and  exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them...the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers."

 --James Madison, Federalist No. 44

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