The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot do so well for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.(p.80)
When Congress met early in December, the perplexed and venerable Buchanan, fearful of secession but still sympathetic toward his Southern friends and the Southern point of view, asserted in his annual message that while a state could not lawfully secede, neither could the Federal government coerce it. He proposed to quiet Southern fears by calling a constitutional convention to frame amendments guaranteeing slavery in the states and territories, and assuring the recovery of runaway slaves.(p.228)
In a perfect world
In a perfect world, the country would insist on me being president; the way we insisted on George Washington being the first president. But, since we don't live in a perfect world and I don't have to worry about being president. First, repel the health care bill, forget about repelling don't ask, don't tell, support AZ's new law, give all business that got bail-out money thirty days to pay back money, or go to bank-ruptcy court. CUT-SPENDING! Reduce government! Listen to the people! Bomb Iran! Get up off our tail, and clean-up the oil spill in the gulf! Give AZ. whatever they need to fight illegal imagration. At least act like we support our troops, and love our country. America, love it or leave it! Stop teaching any language other than english. Stop stealing from Social Security. Stop extending unemployment benifits. Pay back China; lets get out of our enemies pocket. Lets start acting like the greatest country in the world, that we are! Lets stop kissing our enemies butt! Lets kill U.B.L.! Lets pull our selves up by our boot-straps, and get rolling! As Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Why? Because, my family has been fighting and dieing for this country since the American Revolution, and I'm not running away, I'm here for the long hall. I can't aford to run away, any way. The time is now to fight; write letters, email, call, or whatever it takes to get your congress person to listen. In a word, make yourself heard, if you don't, the people in Washington will do what they want, and not worry adout us.
