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01-05-2011, 01:37 AM
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In 1794, for example, James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, rose on the House floor to object to a bill appropriating $15,000 for the relief of French refugees who had fled to Baltimore and Philadelphia from an insurrection in San Domingo. He could not, he said, "undertake to lay [his] finger on that article of the Federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." The bill failed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576055632235572362.html
Maybe this will make our reps a little more nervous and learn a little more about their powers and responsibilities.
In 1794, for example, James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, rose on the House floor to object to a bill appropriating $15,000 for the relief of French refugees who had fled to Baltimore and Philadelphia from an insurrection in San Domingo. He could not, he said, "undertake to lay [his] finger on that article of the Federal Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." The bill failed.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703384504576055632235572362.html
Maybe this will make our reps a little more nervous and learn a little more about their powers and responsibilities.