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As I have stated before, it doesn't matter what Madison thought alone, because the people define what their Constitution means.It's funny that you besmirch Hamilton when it was he who thought up the economic system that got America on its feet that included the "unconstitutional" bank, which neither Jefferson nor Madison had a response to. The very man who chaired the Constitutional Convention signed off on it. Is Washington a two bit player, as well? As President, he certainly had a say in what was constitutional. Did he not understand what he was signing on to?And speaking of Jefferson's "influence", did he or did he not write that the just powers of the government come from the consent of the governed?The Constitution is a set of words that finds its meaning in the people that live under it. Do not sit there and tell us on the one hand that we are to be influenced by the man who told us our government gets its power from our consent, then on the other tell us we are chained to the opinion of one man making our right to consent meaningless.
As I have stated before, it doesn't matter what Madison thought alone, because the people define what their Constitution means.
It's funny that you besmirch Hamilton when it was he who thought up the economic system that got America on its feet that included the "unconstitutional" bank, which neither Jefferson nor Madison had a response to. The very man who chaired the Constitutional Convention signed off on it. Is Washington a two bit player, as well? As President, he certainly had a say in what was constitutional. Did he not understand what he was signing on to?
And speaking of Jefferson's "influence", did he or did he not write that the just powers of the government come from the consent of the governed?
The Constitution is a set of words that finds its meaning in the people that live under it. Do not sit there and tell us on the one hand that we are to be influenced by the man who told us our government gets its power from our consent, then on the other tell us we are chained to the opinion of one man making our right to consent meaningless.
