6:30 segment on the Constitution:
James Madison, Federalist #45.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce…The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
7:00 segment on Shelley:
Shelley, Queen Mab, 1813:
Nature rejects the monarch, not the man;
The subject, not the citizen; for kings
And subjects, mutual foes, forever play
A losing game into each other’s hands,
Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
Johnny Cash, Farmer’s Almanac, 1990:
It’s a little off-beat and a little off-track but it says in the farmer’s almanac
It says in rivers and bad government the lightest things flow to the top
8:00 hour on Constitution:
1794, James Madison, “[I cannot] undertake to lay [my] finger on that article of the Federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
1796, William B. Giles, ““[The House] should not attend to what… generosity and humanity required, but what the Constitution and their duty required.”
1887, Grover Cleveland, “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution”
Here’s the video for our Junior SlaterRaiders about some research tips (not hair tips):
1 Comment
November 16, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Chris Andersen wrote a great book on the subject of free. I believe it’s still available, free, in audio form from audible. The wonderful thing about the internet is it gives all of us the chance to build relationships at little more cost than our time. Which is slowly killing off the yellow highlighter scorched-earth crowd who still believe they only have one shot at you. Thanks for the great post.