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".... how to use those federal powers...."1. The framers of the Constitution combined the best political ideas from the past with what The Federalist called an improved science of politics: federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances. Doing so, they created a form of government which had, in the words of James Madison, no model on the face of the earth.
Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale College.
2. Our Founders envisioned the states as laboratories of democracy and enshrined into our Constitution the principle of federalism. Under federalist principles, the American people endowed the national government with a defined set of limited, enumerated powers in the Constitution. Any powers beyond those specifically given to the federal government fall entirely within the province of the states. Federalism protects liberty by protecting against the overreaching of any one branch of our federal government, and is part of the uniquely American system of checks and balances.
Paloma Zepeda, "Reinventing the Right."
...and from day one of the new nation the people who actually wrote "The Federalist" to the people of the state of New York, disagreed over how to use those federal powers and exactly how narrowly or broadly they should be defined.
The people who wrote The federalist did not get all of what they wanted in the US Constitution, yet they agreed to band together to pass a compromise. The US Constitution is a flawed document. Nothing is perfect.
The Federalist Society was started in the 1970s by people with an agenda who have fed garbage to the people for decades now. They embrace Federalism while cherry picking what they will (familiar?) from Hamilton and Madison.
re: during ratification, Madison and Hamilton were Federalists battling the anti-Federalists. Madison ended up joining Jefferson and others in forming a 'faction' a 'party' .... ... the Democratic-Republican Party, while Hamilton and his people became the Federalist Party
Powers?
What powers???
Your bud Sal-monella said, in the second or third post that the Constitution gave no powers.
You guys should work this out.....I'll hold your coats.....
way to avoid the issue