John Parillo on: Federalist 46 to 48
On Resisting the Federal Government and the Separation of Powers
Constititution
228 Years Ago, John Adams Warned Us — And We’re Proving Him Right
John Adams didn’t write the Constitution like a motivational poster. He wrote it like an engineer handing over a machine with a warning label: this will fail if misused. When he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” he wasn’t sermonizing. He was stating a design limitation.
The Roadmap to Overreach: Madison’s Prophetic Warning
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may justify any action at all under that aegis.
Individual Welfare: Returning to Constitutional Principles
The scope and scale of needs-based programs have sparked debates over their effectiveness, sustainability, and alignment with the constitutional framework.
The Annotated Constitution: An Unconstitutional Expansion
The federal government often operates under an annotated version of the Constitution, which spans roughly 3,000 pages. This annotated version, incorporating over 240 years of court cases, represents a substantial departure from the original text.