Your regular reminder that the majority of the federal government is unconstitutional. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It enshrines the principle of limited federal authority, ensuring states retain autonomy and sovereignty over matters not assigned to the federal government.

We are passing from apathy to dependence. It is not just the corrupt governments we must be vigilant against. It is the selfish voters who want something for nothing that gives these governments their power. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage. Alexander Fraser Tytler

The main question was “how do we maneuver them (the Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.” Secretary of War Henry Stimson His personal diary 10/25/41 You don’t hate your government enough