"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison Letter to W. T. Barry, on education, August 4, 1822 (National Archives)
"A rule of law contained in the Constitution prevails over any act, policy, or practice of government inconsistent with that Constitutional rule. But who properly has the power to interpret and apply the Constitution? The text of the Constitution simply does not say."
Paulsen, Calabresi, McConnell and Bray, "The Constitution of the United States"
Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, New York, NY; 2010, (with legal disclaimer).
It's Ours to Interpret from The Federalist Papers...
A Spy Satellite System Cold Warrior's examination of The Federalist Papers of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
“Deriving Powers from Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Government” intends “to reduce them under absolute Despotism, It is their Right, it is their Duty,” and “now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
Thomas Jefferson in Our DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
FOUNDERS COURSE III Part 1 is identical to T.E.A.M. COURSE 5: What this Did to Us and Why – the System Rigged Against US. For team members' use in conjunction with team Leader's FOUNDERS COURSE III Part 1. How we lost our Republic and System of Finance and how we get them back are the focus of these Constitutional Power Series of Courses. (132 pages)
Learning OBJECTIVES and GOALS of CONSTITUTION POWER Series
I. Making a SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT for and by We the People
II. Our Constitution’s SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT and FINANCE (Review)
III. PRINCIPLES of the SYSTEM of FINANCE 1791
IV. Senator Henry Clay: The AMERICAN SYSTEM
V. Our CONSTITUTION as an Unchanging SYSTEM of GOVERNMENT
VI. WILSON 1913 Coup d’état: Our British Colonial system
VII. Wilson DEMOCRATS’ Destroy Our SYSTEM of FINANCE
VIII. CONCLUSIONS
Exhibits:
Alexander Hamilton, Fed.No. 21: Other Defects of the Present Confederation
The Wilson Constitution 16th& 17th Amendments 1913-2020
A. Wilson Constitution: Effect of 17th AMENDMENT 1913–2020
B. Wilson Constitution: Effect of 16th AMENDMENT 1913–2020
A Coup d'état is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction.
Essays 5 The United States Under The AMERICAN SYSTEM: 1787-1913 (131 pages, download file name: "AMERICAN SYSTEM 1787-1913 Hamilton and Clay Finance a Nation")
– Lecture of Senator HENRY CLAY In CONGRESS 1832 (Chapters I, II, III)
– Financial History 1791–2017 (Chapter IV)
Historical Context
– John SHERMAN 1823-1900 (Chapter V)
– William McKINLEY 1843–1901 (Chapter VI)
– Mark HANNA 1837-1904 (Chapter VII)
– AMERICAN SYSTEM Progressive Legacy (Chapter VIII)
I. The AMERICAN SYSTEM: Senator HENRY CLAY (Classic Senate Speeches)
II. MACRO-ECONOMIC LAWS and TRADING RULES
III. Operation ofThe AMERICAN SYSTEM
IV. AMERICAN SYSTEM Financial History 1791–1913; Aftermath
V. JOHN SHERMAN 1823-1900: Rep., Senator and Treasury Secretary
VI. William McKinley 1843–1901: Representative, Governor, President
VII. MARK HANNA 1837-1904: Industrialist, U.S. Senator 1897-1904
VIII. The AMERICAN SYSTEM the TRUE PROGRESSIVE Legacy
Exhibits: “The Progressive Movement and Transformation of American Politics”
Liberty Street EconomicsCrisis Chronicle: Panic of 1907 and Birth of Fed
The Meeting at Jekyll Island: 10 Days in November 1910
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About this Series: Founders and T.E.A.M. Courses are not legal courses or prepared by lawyers or those schooled in Constitutional law; they are about our Constitution's System of Government and Finance, a topic of many Federalist Papers, but not with members of Congress. The meaning of "systems" is not constrained to technology as The Federalist Papers plainly state 136 times the word is used. Sources and authorities are in the Series of Courses. The Federalist Papers permit us to construct our country's founders' and Constitutional framers' view and thinking regarding the Constitution based on the Papers' "structure or internal logic."
About The Federalist Papers: 85 Federalist essays were written in 1787/8 by Alexander Hamilton (1st Treasury Secretary and founder of the 1st Bank of the U.S.); James Madison (one of 1st U.S. Representatives from VA, 4th U.S. President, father of the Constitution); and John Jay (1st Supreme Court Chief Justice and Governor of New York). This is a course about Federalist Papers in regard to the System of Government and Finance they created; not a legal course, nor is it prepared by anyone in the legal profession. Our Country is like a giant Fortune 500 company; that experience is reflected here.
The Constitution Power Series of Courses incorporate five "system of government" themes from The Federalist Papers: 1. The "System of Finance: Revenue and Taxation to protect and prosper us; 2. Popular Sovereignty and the Federal Republic; 3.Our Agency and Trust of limited Federal enumerated Powers; The System of Government and Finance: 4. Separation of Powers by permanent Vesting Clauses and 5. Legislative Balances and Checks of the guaranteed System.
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