A Madison insight

Unsilenced Cal A Madison insight “Public measures are rarely investigated with a spirit of moderation”...which is “more apt to be diminished than promoted by ...occasions which require an unusual exercise of it (moderation).” But all is excess not moderation in Congress today’ everything is a crisis. Unsilenced Cal A Madison insight “Inquisitive & enlightened statesmen are best qualified to make judicious selections of objects proper for revenue ( taxes).” Instead, pork reigns in Congress today. Unsilenced Cal A Madison mistake James Madison said 3 distinct interest groups represented people in the new Constitutional government. 1. Artisans & manufacturers would represent the merchants, 2. Learned professors would take no distinct interest in society and 3. Landed owners’ interests would be based upon the confidence they had in the protection of their property. Now, the elite rule in favor of their interests and the Constitution and the rest of Americans be damned. Unsilenced Cal A real man Andrew Jackson’s only 2 regrets upon leaving office as President were “not having been able to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun.”