John Taylor Quote

"If the means to which the government of the union may resort for executing the power confided to it, are unlimited, it may easily select such as will impair or destroy the powers confided to the state governments."

by:	John Taylor (1753-1824) usually called John Taylor of Caroline, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, US Senator, writer, political pamphleteer
Source:	Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820)
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Categories:	Centralization, Government, Power
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Unlimited power can not be confided to any government; BECAUSE, no individual sovereign lawfully has such power to confide. Unlimited power, as exemplified by the current police state is much more than an usurpation. Such despotic tyranny is more closely tied to a god's creation of evil. Said "evil" has not only impaired, but destroyed the powers confided to the de jure state governments  -- Mike, Norwalk

We battle not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness in high places ! When the wicked rule the people suffer from oppression, undue unnatural law. Shall they quarter troops in all our homes now ?  -- Ron w13, Or

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