This Man Clearly Hates America

[David Octavius]

So I came across this letter and in part it reads:

The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. . . . [There is also an] inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and . . . degeneracy of manners and of morals. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . . .

This hippie goes on to say:

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war . . . the power of raising armies . . . the power of creating offices. . . .

A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments.

The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

The separation of the power of raising armies from the power of commanding them, is intended to prevent the raising of armies for the sake of commanding them.

Who is this America hater?






James Madison - he wrote this in 1795, 200 years may have passed but the lessons remain the same. Of course in this day and age he would be labeled unpatriotic for wanting government to stay true to the constitution in matters regarding war

[RMNIXON]

Because he understood how armies and warfare operated in Europe and the rest of the world over 200 years ago?

That would be my guess.

If you think it really compares to some Hippy protest of all Armies and Warfare in the 21st Century then I don't get it? The kind of military restraint in conquest demonstated by the United States and other countries in Two World Wars had yet to happen.

[7960]

madison said war sucks.

exactly what's the point of this thread?