Periodical Appeals to the People Considered
From the New York Packet. Tuesday, February 5, 1788.
HAMILTON OR MADISON

Federalist Paper #50

"Is it to be imagined that a legislative assembly, consisting of a hundred or two hundred members, eagerly bent on some favorite object, and breaking through the restraints of the Constitution in pursuit of it, would be arrested in their career, by considerations drawn from a censorial revision of their conduct at the future distance of ten, fifteen, or twenty years? In the next place, the abuses would often have completed their mischievous effects before the remedial provision would be applied. And in the last place, where this might not be the case, they would be of long standing, would have taken deep root, and would not easily be extirpated."

To paraphrase, if it takes long to stop someone they will already be done with their act or be too far in to efficiently stop them.  Take a look at our socialist policies that have endured.  Welfare for example has been around for decades now.  There isn't a powerful enough person on the planet that could remove it since people now have the feeling of entitlement instilled in them.  Had the government noticed the change within 5 years of enacting the policy and saw it was a detriment on society, it would have been possible to get rid of it, though still tough.  Obama is now in the act of putting tons of socialist programs in motion and once conservatives jump back into power, we must IMMEDIATELY remove them from the budget.  In fact it would be in our best interest to start coming up with plans for removing a failed healthcare system, or lowering the minimum wage, or reopening domestic drilling, etc etc.  Plan a step ahead of where we are so when we do get there, we are ready for what we must do to protect this country from a financial dissolution. 

"In some of them it may, perhaps, as a single experiment, made under circumstances somewhat peculiar, be thought to be not absolutely conclusive."

Clyde, I think I have found a way we can go about getting rid of unconstitutional laws.  We work it like Jury duty, only on a larger scale.  We will get a jury of 100 people instead of 12 or whatever the number be.  In questioning to get to our 100, we ask them questions pertaining to their literacy of certain political events.  For example ask them to recite 4 or 5 of the Bill of Rights, then ask them who the current president is, vice president, speaker of the house and their current representing US senator.  That way we get people that are at least paying attention to politics.  We still only  need someone that is a regular citizen so too many qualifications may only narrow our search to certain political agendas.  Before the proceedings the people are then to read the constitution a handful of times each to base their own opinions off of.  Then each side gives their argument like a prosecution of the law, only this time unanimous is not needed, only a 2/3.  If 2/3 of the people say it is unconstitutional, it is gone no questions asked. Of course you will still get people who go in without any facts but are democrat and won't budge or something, but this is about as good as it gets.  A way to counter balance that would be to call a different jury for each couple of issues.  This type of proceeding could also work best for the treason cases, only those would have to be unanimous. 

"When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are so to be called, will be the same."

And here we have summed up the democrats!  Conservatives form their opinions on reason and facts.  Most don't come to a conclusion before researching the issue at hand themselves.  A well reasoned argument may help sway us into a direction if we cannot find a counter to it, and yet we won't truly believe until our own common sense sees that point of view as the truth.  Liberals on the other hand believe anything that is told to them by certain people.  When Bush was in power, everything he did was wrong because MSM said so.  Now that Obama is in power, everything he does is right because MSM says so.  I don't hear any liberals complaining about Obama's foreign policy and yet it is nearly the same as Bush's!  His strategy on Iraq is that of President Bush and yet not a peep.  What is right does not depend on what is happening, but on who is doing it for them.  Since MSM has brainwashed them so, it is not Obama doing what is right/wrong, but instead it is right because Obama is doing it.  A very backwards way of thinking if you ask me.

"because an extinction of parties necessarily implies ...an absolute extinction of liberty."

Do people not see that liberals are out to get rid of the conservatives in this country?  Why do they constantly harp on people listening to Limbaugh?  Instead of actually addressing the issues Rush brings up, they attack the listeners.  Does that even make sense to anyone with an unbiased viewpoint?  I can find no other reason for liberals being afraid of Rush other than they cannot possibly attack the actual issues he brings up.  Notice how the writers that get the most posts by liberals on TH are the ones who bring out the facts on the liberals.  If a columnist was on here and each week they talked about another liberal that might be from another planet because of the yellow tinge in his eyes, would liberals bat an eye at him?  Of course not, because it is not true.  Coulter and Malkin get hundreds of posts each week because their columns ring the most true.  And each time I read the columns, the liberals are not defending the points made in the column, but insulting Coulter/Malkin or the people listening to them.  As with Rush.  They are afraid of the people that speak the truth!  Had it not been for talk radio and Fox, I think Obama would have tried much more radical changes, because he knew he could get away with them.  As it stands we still have a small group that can inform the people.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke