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When Davey Crockett was a Congressman he learned a lesson we desperately need to relearn in our nation. He once voted for some $20,000 to be set aside from the national treasury to be given to families in north Washington, whose houses had burned. It seemed to be the compassionate thing to do. But later, back on the campaign trail, a well-respected farmer told him he could not again vote for him. When Crockett asked him why, the man, Horatio Bunce, replied that he had violated the Constitution by voting that money for the destitute families. Bunce then began to explain that the Constitution allows Congress only the right to vote appropriations for the duties which the Constitution enumerates that the government has the power to do. It gives no power to give money to those citizens who need help. Bunce said to Crockett, quote:
“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man…
“If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.”
(Harper’s Magazine, 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, pen name of Edward S. Ellis)
Davey Crockett learned a vital lesson that day: If the people didn’t agree to something in the original Constitution—or haven’t amended it since concerning that power—then the Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court has no right to do it—PERIOD!!! This view of the Constitution is called Original Intent, and it is the only view that will preserve our liberty!
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While fifty years ago a political candidate who would have openly embraced socialism as his political philosophy would have spelled his doom, today it’s becoming much more accepted due to the multitude of Socialists professors in America’s universities. They teach our young adults from a socialist perspective, and many, if not most, of those young adults come to think socialistically. Now they are running for office—and some are winning!