V4Vendetta
11-08-2007, 05:23 PM
Video Explaing Ron Paul's Vote on Rosa Parks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfhcAiDjEI
Davy Crockett Did the same thing
It was Davy Crockett's adherence to the Constitutional limits of government that led to one of his most famous speeches, "Not Yours to Give." Congress was considering a bill to provide financial assistance to the widow of a distinguished naval officer. The bill was headed for easy passage, until Colonel Crockett voiced his objections.
I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.
We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money....
We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.
Congressmen in the 1820's apparently had a clearer understanding of the Constitution than those today, and the measure was defeated following Crockett's speech. They weren't entirely different from the politicians we know from our day, however, as Davy Crockett explained to his supporters back home:
There are in that House many very wealthy men – men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it.... Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.
http://paul4prez.blogspot.com/2007/09/ron-paul-and-davy-crockett.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfhcAiDjEI
Davy Crockett Did the same thing
It was Davy Crockett's adherence to the Constitutional limits of government that led to one of his most famous speeches, "Not Yours to Give." Congress was considering a bill to provide financial assistance to the widow of a distinguished naval officer. The bill was headed for easy passage, until Colonel Crockett voiced his objections.
I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.
We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money....
We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.
Congressmen in the 1820's apparently had a clearer understanding of the Constitution than those today, and the measure was defeated following Crockett's speech. They weren't entirely different from the politicians we know from our day, however, as Davy Crockett explained to his supporters back home:
There are in that House many very wealthy men – men who think nothing of spending a week's pay, or a dozen of them for a dinner or a wine party when they have something to accomplish by it.... Yet not one of them responded to my proposition. Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.
http://paul4prez.blogspot.com/2007/09/ron-paul-and-davy-crockett.html