"The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared"
Virginians are very familiar with James Madison. Madison was born at Belle Grove in Port Conway, Virginia in 1751 and would become the forth President of the United States. Today, the very essence of the positions of governance that Madison set forth in the Republic are under attack. Yet, the attack does not stop there. There are forces at work in Virginia to rename James Madison University and other founding namesakes having come under attack by Progressive activists all over Virginia.
"The ultimate authority....resides in the People alone"
James Madison, Federalist Papers
No. 46 1788
James Madison (under Publius) wrote extensively on the role of government. Madison asserted that one of the strongest checks on government was in fact an "armed citizenry". James Madison made the comparisons between the new Republic and its European roots by proclaiming that Americans could unite together to stop a government intent on using military force against it whereas Europeans did not have that option.
Madison stated is "was the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation". Americans had an innate ability to unite with one other and defend their personal freedoms and liberties before tyranny. The people could assemble and form militias with one another and these militias would have standing because in fact they were armed.
The ultimate authority resting with the people meant that the power that rests with the government is derived from the people and rests with the people that are governed. Madison believed as many of his time in the natural laws of man.
According to Madison, man is the common superior to both the state and federal governments.
Madison wrote:
"To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it"
See the Federalist Papers and No. 46 here:
https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-46
Today we see a Progressive agenda in Virginia that not only flies in the face of James Madison and Alexander Hamilton's core writings but the very U.S. Constitution itself. It is becoming less about just "guns and ammo" as it is an assault on the very principles of our founding. An agenda that refutes the Republic's Judeo-Christian guiding belief systems instead advancing secular views and removing any religious aspects of our lives from the public domain.
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